J. G. Ballard Quotes About Soul

• But I wouldn't recommend writing. You can be a successful writer and never meet another soul. I'm not sure that's a good thing.

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• Everywhere - all over Africa and South America - you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people want. There's a certain sort of logic leading towards these immaculate suburbs. And they're terrifying, because they are the death of the soul. This is the prison this planet is being turned into.

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  October 30, 1982 Interview, Re/Search, No. 8/9, 1984.

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• The twentieth century ended with its dreams in ruins. The notion of the community as a voluntary association of enlightened citizens has died forever. We realize how suffocatingly humane we've become, dedicated to moderation and the middle way. The suburbanization of the soul has overrun our planet like the plague.

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  J. G. Ballard (2010). “Super-Cannes: A Novel”, p.269, Macmillan

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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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  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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  October 30, 1982 Interview, Re/Search, No. 8/9, 1984.

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