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"Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it."
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"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."
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"The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express."
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"A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else."
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"Out there, there is some kinda genius person... I am talking about Sherlock Holmes... First very fast talking + in the same full of knowledge."
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"The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be."
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"What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around."
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"Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos."
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"Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way."
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"Genius is an inner inherent intuition and perception. It is not a teachable condition."
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"There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling."
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Explore more quotes by J. G. Ballard
"Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century."
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"Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it."
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"In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!"
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"What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths."
Fear
"Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there."
Fiction
"I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul."
Soul
"Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time."
Time
"Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute."
Science
"The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam."
Car
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