Philip K. Dick Quotes
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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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(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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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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''Everything is true', he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.'
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The Empire Never Ended
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Mental illness is not funny.
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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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God is either powerless, stupid or he doesn't give a shit.
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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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I don't write beautifully - I just write reports about our condition.
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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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You saw something you were not supposed to see - something few elements have been aware of, let alone witnessed.
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'matter is plastic in the face of mind.'
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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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You’re not just out of your body; you’re out of your mind, too.
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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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When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion.
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I am basically analytical, not creative; my writing is simply a creative way of handling analysis.
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The unconscious is selective, when it learns what to listen for.
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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 feel the hot winds of karma driving me. Nevertheless I remain here. My training was correct: I must not shrink from the clear white light, for if I do, I will once more re-enter the cycle of birth and death, never knowing freedom, never obtaining release. The veil of maya will fall once more.
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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.