Quotes by J. G. Ballard with future

J. G. Ballard

British author

Lived from: 1930 - 2009

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 15 november 1930 Died: 19 april 2009

  • Put a higher value on yourself. Being hyper-realistic about everything is too simple a get-out.
  • People will begin to explore all the sidestreets of sexual experience, but they will do it intellectually. . . . Sex won't take place in the bed, necessarily--it'll take place in the head!
  • Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.
  • 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!
  • 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.
  • Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?
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  • 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.
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  • Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic.
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  • Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.
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  • The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology.
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  • The future is going to be boring. The suburbanisation of the planet will continue, and the suburbanisation of the soul will follow soon after.
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