Author: J. G. Ballard

Quotes

The future is going to be boring. The suburbanisation of the planet will continue, and the suburbanisation of the soul will follow soon after.

The future is going to be boring. The suburbanisation of the planet will continue, and the suburbanisation of the soul will follow soon after.

- J. G. Ballard

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.

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.

- J. G. Ballard

I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

- J. G. Ballard

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.

- J. G. Ballard

Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.

Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.

- J. G. Ballard

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

- J. G. Ballard

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