Philip K. Dick Quotes
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My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.
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My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.
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With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
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In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.
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There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.
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For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.
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I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.
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If you go to a second-rate place, and you are first-rate, it is very difficult to do first-rate work because you do not get that critical feedback you need for first-rate work on a daily basis.
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When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.
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I love to travel. This is the time for me. When will I do it if not now?
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It's more fun if you can control things like lighting and make special effects in the darkroom.
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I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.
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Hear the mellow wedding bellsGolden bells!What a world of happiness their harmony foretellsThrough the balmy air of nightHow they ring out their delight!
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Oh, I was only twenty four hours from Tulsa,Ah, only one day away from your arms;I hate to do this to you but I love somebody new, what can I do?And I can never, never, never … go home again.
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Because men complained less, we made the false assumption that the complaints women experienced were only women’s complaints and, therefore, only women’s problems. Which created the rationale for women’s problems to be solved – or at least addressed – by public policy.
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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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People often say I started to become too outspoken after a certain period. It’s all because of the Internet. If we didn’t have this technology I would be same as everybody else. I couldn’t really amplify my voice.
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If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.
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'How safe are we here?'
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What I always loved about vintage clothes is that you let the woman who wore it before you live on in some way.
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All trials force the question, Who are you really? And you must trust yourself to answer.
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Dilemma of a civilized man; body mobilized but danger obscure.
