Philip K. Dick Quotes
Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.
Quotes to Explore
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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The divorce was the toughest thing in my life. It still hurts.
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These years after my liberation were years of reconstruction, and I think I made the right decisions... I mean, I lost everything: my life; my father died; I didn't know anything about my children.
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I know someone from growing up who is in jail right now for the rest of his life, but he was one of the sweetest people I ever knew.
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Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.
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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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I believe life is an 'experience ball.' You throw it at someone, it picks up their response... it grows. You play with that ball, learning what it teaches you.
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If I don't fight McGregor, I still have a good life.
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I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.
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Having this interest here in the Redskins is the chief hobby of my life.
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My biggest bits of advice are, write as much as you can, finish what you start, get a thick skin, don't take crap from anyone, but also live your life and have fun. The stereotype of a writer holed up alone all day is really unhelpful. You can't write real people and real emotion if you don't let yourself experience them.
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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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Well, I have a sister that I'm very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life to date, probably of my life, period.
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All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.
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You have to fall. You have to understand what that feels like. For what I want in my life, and for where I want to go with this music, you gotta be humiliated, man. You gotta understand what that feels like. It just makes you stronger.
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I never had any social life, just played the piano and studied, studied, studied.
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In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.
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No signs of life are here: the very prayersInscribed around are in a language dead.
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Under no circumstances trust a lean cook.
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I was born dirt-poor with barely a stitch on my back, and no name or prestige attached to me, and no real clout or connections.
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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.
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Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.
