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J. G. Ballard Quotes
«I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.»
Author: J. G. Ballard
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
boring, conforming, Everything or Nothing, exciting, suburb, sum, sum up, vast
«Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.»
Author: J. G. Ballard
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
dictate, increasing, languages, multiply, mute, muted, mutes
«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...»
Author: J. G. Ballard
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
American Dream, assassination, fantasies, fantasy world, gas, images, Kennedy, run out, stopped, supplies, The Car, The Watergate, Vietnam, Watergate
«I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead -- the guy could have been working for Andy Warhol!»
Author: J. G. Ballard
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
andy, Andy Warhol, conceptual, figurehead, replica, Warhol, wonderfully
«Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.»
«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.»
«Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.»
Author: J. G. Ballard
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
electronic, migration, migrations, opt, opting, opts
«I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead - the guy could have been working for Andy Warhol!»
Author: J. G. Ballard
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
andy, Andy Warhol, conceptual, figurehead, replica, Warhol, wonderfully