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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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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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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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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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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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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'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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The core of my writing is not art but truth.
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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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I am a fictionalizing philosopher, not a novelist.
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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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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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The book business is hidebound.
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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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The highway construction truck tore up the street at forty miles an hour.
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Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
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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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That is the artist's job: take mineral rock from dark silent earth, transform it into shining light-reflecting form from sky.
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For Mercer everything is easy, he thought, because Mercer accepts everything. Nothing is alien to him. But what I’ve done, he thought; that’s become alien to me. In fact everything has become unnatural; I’ve become an unnatural self.
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The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or time.