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A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":33,"quote_text":34,"author_id":5,"source_id":21,"has_image":22,"author":35,"source":36,"quote_tag":37,"commentary":9},3704043,"Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I've fed into my fiction.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":39,"quote_text":40,"author_id":5,"source_id":41,"has_image":22,"author":42,"source":43,"quote_tag":44,"commentary":9},3092649,"Everywhere you look Britain, the States, western Europe people are sealing themselves into crime-free enclaves. That’s a mistake a certain level of crime is part of the necessary roughage of life. Total security is a disease of deprivation.",6,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":46,"quote_text":47,"author_id":5,"source_id":41,"has_image":22,"author":48,"source":49,"quote_tag":50,"commentary":9},3092648,"It’s true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a powerful premonition of everything that lies ahead of me, even ten years ahead.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":52,"quote_text":53,"author_id":5,"source_id":41,"has_image":22,"author":54,"source":55,"quote_tag":56,"commentary":9},3092647,"A general rule: if enough people predict something, it won’t happen.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":58,"quote_text":59,"author_id":5,"source_id":41,"has_image":22,"author":60,"source":61,"quote_tag":62,"commentary":9},3092646,"People, particularly over-moralistic Americans, have often seen me as a pessimist and humourless to boot, yet I think I have an almost maniacal sense of humour. 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Ballard's essay or interview, reflecting his experiences as a writer in the 1960s and 1970s. During this period, Ballard was gaining recognition for his avant-garde novels, but he was also struggling to balance his creative ambitions with the commercial pressures of the publishing industry.\n\n**The Hidden Insight**\nThe quote reveals a counter-intuitive truth about the perils of success in creative endeavors. Ballard is suggesting that achieving a certain level of recognition can lead to a sense of confinement, where one's work becomes predictable and formulaic, stifling innovation and freedom. This paradox highlights the tension between the desire for artistic expression and the need for commercial viability.\n\n**How to Use This**\nTo avoid becoming \"bricked\" into a niche, modern professionals and creatives should prioritize experimentation and risk-taking, even in the face of established success. This means embracing uncertainty and being willing to challenge one's own assumptions and conventions, rather than relying on established formulas or audience expectations.",{"id":77,"quote_text":78,"author_id":5,"source_id":41,"has_image":22,"author":79,"source":80,"quote_tag":81,"commentary":9},3092643,"The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old-fashioned machine, it enshrines a basically old-fashioned idea: freedom.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"currentPage":83,"totalPages":84,"totalItems":8,"itemsPerPage":15},1,21]