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• Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be…
• The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its…
• I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened;…
• The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack…
• Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
• Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.
• I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
• The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely…
• Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we…
• Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment,…
• I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to…
• I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator…

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