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Cocaine Nights QUOTES

Cocaine Nights QUOTES

1 " She glanced at her watch, reminding herself who she was. "

― J.G. Ballard , Cocaine Nights

2 " ...the arts and criminality have always flourished side by side. "

― J.G. Ballard , Cocaine Nights

3 " The white façades of the villas and apartment houses were like blocks of time that had crystallised beside the road. "

― J.G. Ballard , Cocaine Nights

4 " Put a higher value on yourself. Being hyper-realistic about everything is too simple a get-out. "

― J.G. Ballard , Cocaine Nights

5 " Yes, we gave her drugs - we wanted to free her from those sinister clinics up in the hills, from those men in white coats who know best. Bibi needed to soar over our heads, dreaming her amphetamine dreams, coming off the beach in the evening and leading everyone into the cocaine night. "

― J.G. Ballard , Cocaine Nights

6 " We're building prisons all over the world and calling them luxury condos. "

― J.G. Ballard , Cocaine Nights

7 " One needs a great deal of idle time to feel really sorry for oneself. "

― J.G. Ballard , Cocaine Nights

8 " Crime and vandalism are everywhere. You have to rise above these mindless thugs and the oafish world they inhabit. Insecurity forces you to cherish whatever moral strengths you have, just as political prisoners memorize Dostoevsky's House of the Dead, the dying play Bach and rediscover their faith, parents mourning a dead child do voluntary work at a hospice. "

― J.G. Ballard , Cocaine Nights

9 " Religions emerged too early in human evolution — they set up symbols that people took literally, and they're as dead as a line of totem poles. Religions should have come later, when the human race begins to near its end. Sadly, crime is the only spur that rouses us. We're fascinated by that "other world" where everything is possible. "

― J.G. Ballard , Cocaine Nights

10 " They're listening to the sun, Charles. Waiting for a new kind of light. "

― J.G. Ballard , Cocaine Nights