Philip K. Dick Quotes
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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 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.
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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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So that’s that, Barney said to himself. I violated Rule One of career-oriented functioning: never tell your superior something he doesn’t want to hear.
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It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense.
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'God,' Eldritch said, 'promises eternal life. I can do better; I can deliver it.'
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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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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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Movies like 'Westworld' used ideas I'd thought of a long time ago.
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She did not really want to know; she believed she understood already.
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Reality, by itself, becomes a story by Philip K. Dick.
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He now set down all the communications apparatus, rose stiffly from the chair and momentarily stood facing the misty, immobile, icebound shape of Joe Chip resting within its transparent plastic casket. Upright and silent, as it would be for the rest of eternity.
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'Isn’t there any way-' He broke off. Can’t the past be altered? he asked himself. Evidently not. Cause and effect work in only one direction, and change is real. So what’s gone is gone, and I might as well get out of here.
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Madness has its own dynamism. It just goes on.
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'Fear,' Jason said, 'can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. If you're afraid you don’t commit yourself to life completely; fear makes you always, always hold something back.''
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Madness, like small fish, runs in hosts, in vast numbers of instances.
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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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Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others.
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Somebody high up was toying with the idea of allowing them to breed. Some sort of industrial use. We withheld euth for years. But Cris Johnson stayed alive outside our control. Those things at Denver were under constant scrutiny.
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Spinoza saw... that if a falling stone could reason, it would think, 'I want to fall at the rate of thirty-two feet per second.'
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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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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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I saw a segment of Douglas Trumbull's special effects for 'Blade Runner' on the KNBC-TV news. I recognized it immediately. It was my own interior world. They caught it perfectly.