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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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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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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As I've said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis' future.
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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 was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I'm going to get Jackie Ward to record.
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One can say that the author is an ideological product, since we represent him as the opposite of his historically real function. (When a historically given function is represented in a figure that inverts it, one has an ideological production.) The author is therefore the ideological figure by which one marks the manner in which we fear the proliferation of meaning.
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The creative act always requires a stepping back. It's called the incubation period. The incubation period - one of the four phases of creativity - is when you're not consciously thinking of a problem, and you're letting it marinate. So this is why you hear time and again, people saying they had that "Eureka" moment in the bath, like Archimedes, or in the shower, or while going for a walk or in a coffeehouse.
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The short English miles are delightful for walking. You are always pleased to find, every now and then, in how short a time you have walked a mile, though, no doubt, a mile is everywhere a mile, I walk but a moderate pace, and can accomplish four English miles in an hour.
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I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.
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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.
