Philip K. Dick Quotes
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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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Little kids are that way; they feel if their parents aren't watching what they do then what they do isn't real.
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It’s not religious fervor; it’s just a mean, very cruel streak.
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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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She could kill him easily. But the lash-tube wavered. Cris Johnson stood without fear; he wasn't at all afraid. Why not? Didn't he understand what it was? What the small metal tube could do to him? 'Of course,' she said suddenly, in a choked whisper. 'You can see ahead. You know I'm not going to kill you. Or you wouldn't have come here.'
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But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That’s closer to it. The artistic life without the talent.
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I am basically analytical, not creative; my writing is simply a creative way of handling analysis.
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It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
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The time, then, had come for him to poison himself so that an economic monopoly could be kept alive, a sprawling, interplan empire from which he now derived nothing.
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I am a fictionalizing philosopher, not a novelist.
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'We should celebrate,' Rita said.'Yes. I'm where I wanted to be.' Benteley sipped the remains of his drink. 'Working for the Directorate. Sworn in to the Quizmaster. That’s what I set out for, that day. It seems like a long time ago. Well, I've finally arrived.' He gazed down at his glass and was silent.'How do you feel?''Not much different.'
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In all possible universes, Monday was the same.
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I, for one, bet on science as helping us. I have yet to see how it fundamentally endangers us, even with the H-bomb lurking about. Science has given us more lives than it has taken; we must remember that.
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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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The book business is hidebound.
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Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small...and you will escape the jealousy of the great.
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The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or time.
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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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If you can get them to see the world as you do, they will think as you do.
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Dilemma of a civilized man; body mobilized but danger obscure.
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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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People have told me that everything about me, every facet of my life, psyche, experiences, dreams, and fears, are laid out explicitly in my writing, that from the corpus of my work I can be absolutely and precisely inferred. This is true.
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You’re not just out of your body; you’re out of your mind, too.
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When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion.