“I wanted to rub the human face in its own vomit and force it to look in the mirror.”

— J. G. Ballard

On the reasons why he wrote Crash, as quoted in "From Wales, A World Apart" by Jeff Miers in Buffalo News (7 January 2005); also in "The Body Horrific : Cronenberg Classics at the IFC Center" by David Sharko at Tribeca Film (17 February 2009) http://www.tribecafilm.com/news-features/features/david_cronenberg.html
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British writer 1930–2009

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