Philip K. Dick Quotes
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Certainly it constitutes bad news if the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit.
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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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Madness, like small fish, runs in hosts, in vast numbers of instances.
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Movies like 'Westworld' used ideas I'd thought of a long time ago.
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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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It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense.
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(Insanity) is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate - confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man.
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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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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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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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She did not really want to know; she believed she understood already.
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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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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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'God,' Eldritch said, 'promises eternal life. I can do better; I can deliver it.'
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Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.
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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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Life is short. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it. Here I stand. But no longer.
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Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others.
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Reality, by itself, becomes a story by Philip K. Dick.
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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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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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The ultimate problem confronting me all my life has been the senseless injury to and neglect of my sister.
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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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Our methods may seem strange and indirect. Even incomprehensible. But I assure you we know what we're doing.