Philip K. Dick Quotes
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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.
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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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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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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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In all possible universes, Monday was the same.
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He flushes at his presence in a comfort station.
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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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The core of my writing is not art but truth.
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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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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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The book business is hidebound.
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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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It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
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Comprehension follows perception.
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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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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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Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
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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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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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The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or time.
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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.