Philip K. Dick Quotes
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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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'You don't go by odds. You know what's coming. You've seen the cards already.' She studied his face intently. 'No, you can't be cold-decked. It wouldn't be possible.'
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In all possible universes, Monday was the same.
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We'll know homo superior when he comes - by definition. He'll be the one we won't be able to euth.
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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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A lot can be said for the infinite mercies of God, but the smarts of a good pharmacist, when you get down to it, is worth more.
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The core of my writing is not art but truth.
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I am a fictionalizing philosopher, not a novelist.
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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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He flushes at his presence in a comfort station.
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The book business is hidebound.
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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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Robert Arctor halted. Stared at them, at the straights in their fat suits, their fat ties, their fat shoes, and he thought, Substance D can’t destroy their brains; they have none.
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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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I dreamed: I am the fish whose flesh is eaten, and because I am fat, it is good.
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Odd that the brain could function on its own, without acquainting him with its purposes, its reasons. But the brain was an organ, like the spleen, heart, kidneys. And they went about their private activities. So why not the brain?
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Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
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Comprehension follows perception.
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It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
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I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards.
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Certainly it constitutes bad news if the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit.
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Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work.
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The highway construction truck tore up the street at forty miles an hour.
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That is the artist's job: take mineral rock from dark silent earth, transform it into shining light-reflecting form from sky.