Philip K. Dick Quotes
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Giving me a new idea is like handing a cretin a loaded gun, but I do thank you anyhow, bang, bang.
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(Hawthorne Abendsen) told us about our own world. This, what's around us now. He wants us to see it for what it is. And I do, and more so each moment.
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The Empire Never Ended
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Mental illness is not funny.
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''Everything is true', he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.'
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One thing I've found that I can do that I really enjoy is rereading my own writing, earlier stories and novels especially. It induces mental time travel, the same way certain songs you hear on the radio do … the whole thing returns, an eerie feeling that I'm sure you've experienced.
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God is either powerless, stupid or he doesn't give a shit.
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The merest presence of life, even the smallest possible quantity of volition, desire and intent was enough to reverse the process by which the eternal landscape of hell made itself known.
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I don't write beautifully - I just write reports about our condition.
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It’s a downer to tell anything to a kid. I once had a kid ask me, 'What was it like to see the first automobile?' Shit, man, I was born in 1962.
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Dilemma of a civilized man; body mobilized but danger obscure.
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Hands in his pockets he began to walk aimlessly down the sidewalk runnel. And, each minute, feeling more and more scared and desperate. Everything was falling apart around him. And he seemed helpless to halt the collapse; he could only witness it, completely impotent, snatched up and gripped by processes too powerful for him to understand.
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Isn’t a miserable reality better than the most interesting illusion? Or is it illusion, Barney? I don’t know anything about philosophy; you explain it to me because all I know is religious faith and that doesn’t equip me to understand this.
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'matter is plastic in the face of mind.'
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You’re not just out of your body; you’re out of your mind, too.
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You saw something you were not supposed to see - something few elements have been aware of, let alone witnessed.
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Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.
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When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion.
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I saw Substance D growing. I saw death rising from the earth, from the ground itself, in one blue field, in stubbled color.
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The unconscious is selective, when it learns what to listen for.
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Once they notice you, Jason realized, they never completely close the file. You can never get back your anonymity. It is vital not to be noticed in the first place.
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I am basically analytical, not creative; my writing is simply a creative way of handling analysis.
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Are we to assist it in gaining power in order to save our lives? Is that the paradox of our earthly situation?
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I realized, then, that I had stood without intending to. Flight reaction, I said to myself. Instinctive. Upon experiencing close adversaries. The lizard part of the brain.