J.G. Saxe quote: "I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt, If one be better with them or without,-- Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed, Knows the high art of what and how to read."

But her voice is still living immortal, The same you have frequently heard, In your rambles in...
J.G. SAXE

A very man--not one of nature's clods-- With human failings, whether saint or sinner: Endowed ...
J.G. SAXE

Tom Goodwin was an actor-man, Old Drury's pride and boast, In all the light and spritely parts...
J.G. SAXE

I will touch My mouth unto the leaves, caressingly; And so wilt thou. Thus, from these lips o...
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Nay, tarry a moment, my charming girl; Here is a jewel of gold and pearl; A beautiful cross it...
J.G. SAXE

'Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create!
J.G. SAXE

It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create.
JOHN SAXE

This was a blanket refusal of care and is the first case like it we know of.
ROSE SAXE

In battle or business, whatever the game,
In law or in love, it is ever the same;
In the str...
JOHN GODFREY SAXE

It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create
JOHN GODFREY SAXE

I'm growing fonder of my staff;
I'm growing dimmer in my eyes;
I'm growing fainter in my...
JOHN GODFREY SAXE

And as he dug, he wept. He saw Hari's animated face, and numberless dead men, and the hatred on the ...
J.G. FARRELL

If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks w...
J.G. BALLARD

Remember, David, the middle class have to be kept under control. They understand that, and police th...
J.G. BALLARD

She had originally agreed to appear naked, but on seeing the cars informed me that she would only ap...
J.G. BALLARD

The ultimate concept car will move so fast, even at rest, as to be invisible.
J.G. BALLARD

Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?
J.G. BALLARD

I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to ho...
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They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the to...
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He methodically basted the dark skin of the Alsatian, which he had stuffed with garlic and herbs. J.G. BALLARD

The heart is wiser than the intellect. -J.G. Holland.
J.G. HOLLAND

God never said it would be easy .... He just said He would go with me.
J.G. HOLLAND

The endless newsreel clips of nuclear explosions that we saw on TV in the 1960s (were) a powerful in...
J.G. BALLARD

However, for all his affection and loyalty towards the animal, the dog would soon be leaving him - t...
J.G. BALLARD

First she would try to kill him, but failing this give him food and her body, breast-feed him back t...
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Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.
J.G. BALLARD

All over the world major museums have bowed to the influence of Disney and become theme parks in the...
J.G. BALLARD

We look on past ages with condescension, as a mere preparation for us....but what if we are a mere a...
J.G. FARRELL

After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in a...
J.G. BALLARD

Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or event...
J.G. BALLARD

Their violence (the jungle wars of the '70s), and all violence for that matter, reflects the neutral...
J.G. BALLARD

People no longer need enemies--in this millennium their great dream is to become victims. Only their...
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I love the smell of male urine and the reek of his groin on my bath towels after he’d had a shower
J.G. BALLARD

The film festival measured a mile in length, from the Martinez to the Vieux Port, where sales execut...
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The house was silent, but somewhere in the garden was a swimming pool filled with unsettled water.
J.G. BALLARD

The twentieth century ended with its dreams in ruins. The notion of the community as a voluntary ass...
J.G. BALLARD

Sooner or later, all games become serious.
J.G. BALLARD

Jim watched them eat, his eyes fixed on every morsel that entered their mouth. When the oldest of th...
J.G. BALLARD

Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free o...
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To his surprise he felt a moment of regret, of sadness that his quest for his mother and father woul...
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No American films?’

‘I don’t like comic strips.’

‘Film noir?’
J.G. BALLARD

First wives are a rite of passage into adult life. In many ways it’s important that first marriage...
J.G. BALLARD

Have you noticed how vocabularies fluctuate in order to cope with our need to justify ourselves?
J.G. BALLARD

Travel is the last fantasy the 2Oth Century left us, the delusion that going somewhere helps you rei...
J.G. BALLARD

So, with all this time on my hands, I decided to start a revolution.
J.G. BALLARD

Prosperous suburbia was one of the end-states of history. Once achieved, only plague, flood, or nucl...
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Almost pedantically, she added: "They're not really bombs-- they're acoustic provocations.
J.G. BALLARD

Either the world is at fault, or we’re looking for meaning in the wrong places.
J.G. BALLARD

The city was a vast and stationary carousel, forever boarded by millions of would-be passengers who ...
J.G. BALLARD

Police violence, I noted, was directly proportional to police boredom, and not to any resistance off...
J.G. BALLARD

You're a domestic man, David. You feel hundreds of small affections all the time. They haunt every f...
J.G. BALLARD

From sandwich to summer school, they were the symbols of subservience and the enemies of freedom.
J.G. BALLARD

Kill a politician and you're tied to the motive that made you pull the trigger.
J.G. BALLARD

Tourism is the great soporific. It's a huge confidence trick, and gives people the dangerous idea th...
J.G. BALLARD

When you were twenty, you accepted yourself, flaws and all. Then disenchantment set in. By the time ...
J.G. BALLARD

The Thames Shouldered its way past Blackfriars Bridge, impatient with the ancient piers, no longer t...
J.G. BALLARD

When Armageddon takes place, parking is going to be a major problem.
J.G. BALLARD

Remember, the police are neutral - they hate everybody.
J.G. BALLARD

But a lottery isn't meaningless. Someone has to win.
J.G. BALLARD

Jim knew that he was awake and asleep at the same time, dreaming of the war and yet dreamed of by th...
J.G. BALLARD

Strangman shrugged theatrically. "It might," he repeated with great emphasis. "Let's admit th...
J.G. BALLARD

Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willing...
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But it held a deeper meaning for me, the sense that reality itself was a stage set that could be dis...
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Beyond our physical touch, the breasts of these screen actresses incite our imaginations to explore ...
J.G. BALLARD

The sex act is emotionally the richest and the most imaginatively charged event in our lives, compar...
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...
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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

Miriam - I'll give you any flowers you want!' Rhapsodising over the thousand scents of her body, I e...
J.G. BALLARD

Put a higher value on yourself. Being hyper-realistic about everything is too simple a get-out.
J.G. BALLARD

I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt, If one be better with them or without,-- Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed, Knows the high art of what and how to read.

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I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt, If one be better with them or without,-- Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed, Knows the high art of what and how to read.

J.G. Saxe

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