People nowadays like to be together not in the old-fashioned way of, say, mingling on the piazza of … - J. G. Ballard

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In order to be great, you have to learn from greatness, which is what I have tried to do.

J. G. Ballard

People nowadays like to be together not in the old-fashioned way of, say, mingling on the piazza of an Italian Renaissance city, but, instead, huddled together in traffic jams, bus queues, on escalators and so on. It's a new kind of togetherness which may seem totally alien, but it's the togetherness of modern technology.

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