Philip K. Dick Quotes
The hell with the newspapers. Nobody reads the letters to the editor column except the nuts. It's enough to get you down.
Quotes to Explore
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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The first step... shall be to lose the way.
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Young people really want you to give them a road map, and they will follow it to a tee. If you tell them, 'These are the eight steps you have to take to be successful,' they will do all eight very earnestly.
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations. I enjoy my life the most when I have a bunch of things going on at the same time.
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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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My best time is a 3:20 in Paris in 2010, and I trained to try for a 3-hour marathon in New York, but Hurricane Sandy hit, and it was canceled.
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If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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I'm usually bikini-ready all year round.
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I like fighters who come to fight.
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When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.
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I was pretty bad. When I first was diagnosed with kidney failure, my function - the function of my kidney was less than 8 percent.
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If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
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I have no television - I hate it.
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I played without fear. I've done that since I first kicked a ball in my back garden as a five-year-old, whether it's been my first game, my 100th game, or my 500th game.
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You don't set up an implicit promise from the federal government that everybody is getting bailed out.
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I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.
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The word "utopia" has two meanings. It means both "good place" and "nowhere". That's the way it should be. The happiest places, I think, are the ones that reside just this side of paradise. The perfect person would be insufferable to live with; likewise, we wouldn't want to live in the perfect place, either. "A life time of happiness! No man could bear it: It would be hell on earth," wrote George Bernard Shaw, in his play Man and Superman.
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When I hit the scene, there was Billy Connolly and Max Boyce. It was all mother-in-law and Irish jokes, and we broke the mould. Now there are thousands of comedians out there, and I don't think I can be above it all.
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People used to believe only a professional could do tiling or install track lighting. That's utter nonsense.
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I always knew I didn't want kids, and I didn't want to get married.
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The hell with the newspapers. Nobody reads the letters to the editor column except the nuts. It's enough to get you down.
