Philip K Dick Quotes
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We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope. Falling into an interminable ennui (Philip K Dick Quotes)
Here, the enemy was not merely another group of human beings with a differing political persuasion; the enemy here was death (Philip K Dick Quotes)
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 (Philip K Dick Quotes)
Probably she should not have gotten away with it for as long as she had... But sometime, he had often thought, the retribution will come: reality denied comes back to haunt (Philip K Dick Quotes)
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 (Philip K Dick Quotes)
Sometimes I wish I knew how to go crazy. I forget how. It’s a lost art, hank said. Maybe there’s an instruction manual on it (Philip K Dick Quotes)
In this dark world where he now dwelt, ugly things and surprising things and once in a long while a tiny wondrous thing spilled out at him constantly; he could count on nothing (Philip K Dick Quotes)
Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost... Perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that precious little fragment as well (Philip K Dick Quotes)
It sounds like they’re saying passive life is good, he thought. But there is no such thing as passive life. That’s a contradiction (Philip K Dick Quotes)
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 (Philip K Dick Quotes)
A child of today can detect a lie quicker than the wisest adult of two decades ago. When I want to know what is true, I ask my children (Philip K Dick Quotes)
Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world, a world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans (Philip K Dick Quotes)
In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if all of us are real (Philip K Dick Quotes)
A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope (Philip K Dick Quotes)
When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things... I must be scientific (Philip K Dick Quotes)
No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it (Philip K Dick Quotes)
She makes life over, he realized. She controls life, whereas I just sit on my can and let it happen to me (Philip K Dick Quotes)
Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it (Philip K Dick Quotes)
So books are real to me, too; they link me not just with other minds but with the vision of other minds, what those minds understand and see. I see their worlds as well as I see my own (Philip K Dick Quotes)
On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components (Philip K Dick Quotes)
Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back (Philip K Dick Quotes)
I’m tired and I want to rest; I want to get out of this and go lie down somewhere, off where it’s dark and no one speaks. Forever (Philip K Dick Quotes)
The frogs hopping indoors agree that we are on a prison planet. They themselves are frog criminals that were convicted of doing frog crimes (Philip K Dick Quotes)
It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen (Philip K Dick Quotes)
He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside (Philip K Dick Quotes)
If the last to know he’s an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected (Philip K Dick Quotes)
No man is infinitely strong; for every creature that runs, flies, hops or crawls there is a terminal nemesis which he will not circumvent, which will finally do him in (Philip K Dick Quotes)
I never liked the idea of doing what a machine says. I hate having to salute something built in a factory (Philip K Dick Quotes)
What is possible and what is not possible is not objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the author and of the reader (Philip K Dick Quotes)
All responsible writers, to some degree, have become involuntary criers of doom, because doom is in the wind (Philip K Dick Quotes)