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"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. In terms of pollution, noise and human life, the price of that freedom may be high, but perhaps the car, by the very muddle and confusion it causes, may be holding back the remorseless spread of the regimented, electronic society."

Ballard, J. G. · Automobiles · 0 fans >>
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"What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths."

Ballard, J. G. · Automobiles · 0 fans >>
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"I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object."

Barthes, Roland · Automobiles · 0 fans >>
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"Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated."

Baudrillard, Jean · Automobiles · 0 fans >>
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"The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson's nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was nearly as free of culture as the sea traversed by the Mayflower Pilgrims."

Boorstin, Daniel J. · Automobiles · 1 fans >>
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"A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system."

Cocteau, Jean · Automobiles · 0 fans >>
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"Glorious, stirring sight! The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today -- in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped -- always somebody else's horizons! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my!"

Grahame, Kenneth · Automobiles · 1 fans >>
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"The reason American cars don't sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That's why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire."

Lagerfeld, Karl · Automobiles · 2 fans >>
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"The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete."

Mcluhan, Marshall · Automobiles · 0 fans >>
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"The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man."

Mcluhan, Marshall · Automobiles · 0 fans >>
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"What I like, or one of the things I like, about motoring is the sense it gives one of lighting accidentally, like a voyager who touches another planet with the tip of his toe, upon scenes which would have gone on, have always gone on, will go on, unrecorded, save for this chance glimpse. Then it seems to me I am allowed to see the heart of the world uncovered for a moment."

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