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The core of my writing is not art but truth.
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'God,' Eldritch said, 'promises eternal life. I can do better; I can deliver it.'
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Movies like 'Westworld' used ideas I'd thought of a long time ago.
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Comprehension follows perception.
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She did not really want to know; she believed she understood already.
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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'm a strange person. Sometimes I hardly know what I'm going to do or say next. Sometimes I seem a stranger to myself. Sometimes what I do surprises me and I can't understand why I do it.
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And of course, in my writing, there is the constant theme of music, love of, preoccupation with, music. Music is the single thread making my life into a coherency. … It's my job and my vice mixed together. You can't hope for better than that: having your job and your sin commingled.
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Here, the enemy was not merely another group of human beings with a differing political persuasion; the enemy here was death.
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The ultimate problem confronting me all my life has been the senseless injury to and neglect of my sister.
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It’s not religious fervor; it’s just a mean, very cruel streak.
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Can anyone alter fate? All of us combined...or one great figure...or someone strategically placed, who happens to be in the right spot. Chance. Accident. And our lives, our world, hanging on it.
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When I believe, I am crazy. When I don't believe, I suffer psychotic depression.
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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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Our methods may seem strange and indirect. Even incomprehensible. But I assure you we know what we're doing.
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We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, 'What is real?' Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms.
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Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.
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Too bad, Matson thought archly, that George Hoffman didn’t discover more planets in more star systems habitable by us, the frail needs of living, sentient, mentating biochemical upright bipeds which we humans are.
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Crazy people do not apply the principle of scientific parsimony... they shoot for the baroque.
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The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.
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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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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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If I had known it was harmlessI would have killed it myself.
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'matter is plastic in the face of mind.'
Philip K. Dick