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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.

Source: Interview in M?taphors, no. 7 (1983; repr. in Re/Search, San Francisco, no. 8/9, 1984).
-- J G Ballard, (Nov 15 1930-2009), English novelist; He writes books of surrealistic fiction with apocalyptic themes; wrote the best-selling novel Empire of the Sun, 1984.

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