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It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before


Robert D. Ballard

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E. M. CIORAN The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.
EMIL M. CIORAN The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.
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J.G. BALLARD The post-Reagan vacuum is doubly curious because Reagan was himself a vacuum (or seems so to this Eu...
J.G. BALLARD The test of language is how well it can be translated into other tongues, and sex is the most negoti...
J.G. BALLARD Their period in the apartment together had been one of almost narcotic domesticity.
J.G. BALLARD The core identity is Traven, a name taken consciously from B. Traven, a writer I've always admired f...
J.G. BALLARD Massive cerebral damage and abdominal bleeding in automobile accidents could be imitated within half...
J.G. BALLARD Of course, from one point of view the unhappy events of our own century might be regarded as, say, d...
J.G. BALLARD ...the look of a man who had made the devil's bargain and knew he had lost.
J.G. BALLARD Readers will recall that the little evidence collected seemed to point to the strange and confusing ...
J.G. BALLARD ...reason rationalizes reality for him (Dr. Nathan) as it does for the rest of us, in the Freudian s...
J.G. BALLARD Beyond the silver span of the motor bridge lay basins of cracked mud the size of ballrooms - models ...
J.G. BALLARD Travers’s problem is how to come to terms with the violence that has pursued his life - not merely...
J.G. BALLARD At the logic of fashion, such once-popular perversions as pedophilia and sodomy will become derided ...
J.G. BALLARD There is a British pop group called God. At a recent book signing the lead singer introduced himself...
J.G. BALLARD In his mind World War III represents the final self-destruction and imbalance of an asymmetric world...
J.G. BALLARD He walked into the bathroom, wincing at himself in the mirror, that always more tired older brother.
J.G. BALLARD A visit to Père Lachaise in Paris adds a year to one's life
J.G. BALLARD The ambiguous role of the car crash needs no elaboration—apart from our own deaths, the car crash ...
J.G. BALLARD Deep assignments run through all our lives; there are no coincidences.
J.G. BALLARD Sex is now a conceptual act, it's probably only in terms of the perversions that we can make contact...
J.G. BALLARD The media landscape of the present day is a map in search of a territory. A huge volume of sensation...
J.G. BALLARD In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance th...
J.G. BALLARD I think we match up well with Claflin. It will be interesting.
MARSHALL BALLARD She's one of the ones in practice who always steps up and makes free throws. She's clutch.
MARSHALL BALLARD At any given time, any of our girls can step up and have a big game, whether it's making baskets or ...
MARSHALL BALLARD I put it all on the girls. They've done an excellent job of adapting. A lot of things are the same a...
MARSHALL BALLARD It was all new to me. I was clueless.
MARSHALL BALLARD It was labor of love.
KATIE BALLARD