{"author":"J.G. Ballard","author_id":"J.G.+Ballard","total_quotes":54,"quotes":[{"text":"The 90’s map the decades to come – full of invisible technologies that will ‘sub-contract’ many of the functions of the central nervous system.","author":"J.G. Ballard","tags":["future","humanity","mankind","technology"],"id":6383,"author_id":"J.G.+Ballard"},{"text":"The house was silent, but somewhere in the garden was a swimming pool filled with unsettled water.","author":"J.G. Ballard","tags":["description","menace","silence"],"id":9418,"author_id":"J.G.+Ballard"},{"text":"In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.J.G.","author":"J.G. Ballard","tags":["city","future"],"id":22857,"author_id":"J.G.+Ballard"},{"text":"They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never dissapointed.","author":"J.G. Ballard","tags":["acquaintances","ballard","dissapointment","high-rise","j-g-ballard","james-graham-ballard","jg-ballard","living","self-sufficiency"],"id":45042,"author_id":"J.G.+Ballard"},{"text":"In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance than all the pages in War and Peace.","author":"J.G. Ballard","tags":["novels","tolstoy","warhol"],"id":60962,"author_id":"J.G.+Ballard"},{"text":"She glanced at her watch, reminding herself who she was.","author":"J.G. Ballard","tags":["identity","time"],"id":79675,"author_id":"J.G.+Ballard"},{"text":"The run-down nature of the high-rise was a model of the world into which the future was carrying them, a landscape beyond technology where everything was either derelict or more ambiguously recombined in unexpected but more meaningful ways.","author":"J.G. Ballard","tags":["apocalypse","future","technology"],"id":82966,"author_id":"J.G.+Ballard"},{"text":"Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free of time. Anything erected there, a city, a pyramid, a motel, stands outside time. It's no coincidence that religious leaders emerge from the desert. Modern shopping malls have much the same function. A future Rimbaud, Van Gogh or Adolf Hitler will emerge from their timeless wastes.","author":"J.G. Ballard","tags":["deserts","malls","time"],"id":94735,"author_id":"J.G.+Ballard"},{"text":"We have annexed the future into our present as merely one of those manifold alternatives open to us.","author":"J.G. Ballard","tags":["future"],"id":96979,"author_id":"J.G.+Ballard"},{"text":"First wives are a rite of passage into adult life. In many ways it’s important that first marriages go wrong. That’s how we learn the truth about ourselves.","author":"J.G. Ballard","tags":["marriage"],"id":105792,"author_id":"J.G.+Ballard"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":54,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}