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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There is plenty of building material and more than enough manpower to make a decent home for every Cuban. But if we continue to wait for the golden calf, a thousand years will have gone by, and the problem will remain the same.
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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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I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.
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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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The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?
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The mentality we have in India is not very sporting.
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I say to everybody, love is what wakes you up in the morning, love is what makes you walk, and love is what makes you hope.
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Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition.
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I think if more members of Congress would talk about what they see and what they want to do and what they want to accomplish, rather than talking about their opponent, we would begin to shape and reshape American public opinion on what the political world looks like.
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Dilemma of a civilized man; body mobilized but danger obscure.
