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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No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.
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I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.
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The ancient covenant is in pieces; man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling immensity, out of which he emerged only by chance. His destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty. The kingdom above or the darkness below: it is for him to choose.
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The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it.
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I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
Dilemma of a civilized man; body mobilized but danger obscure.
