My life and creative work are justified and completed by Blade Runner. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“The existence of a majority logically implies a corresponding minority.” — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I like her; I could watch her the rest of my life. She has breasts that smile. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Only death can get us out of this and maybe not even death. Maybe it’s too late; we’ll carry this deterioration with… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Damn her he said to himself. What good does it do my risking my life? She doesn't care whether we own an… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Life ... is only heavy and none else; there is only the one trip, all heavy. Heavy that leads to the grave.… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
And of course, in my writing, there is the constant theme of music, love of, preoccupation with, music. Music is the single… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like [a] concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“the basis of life is not a greed to exist, not a desire of any kind. It's fear, the fear which I… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I guess that's the story of life: what you most fear never happens, but what you most yearn for never happens either.… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I must admit that the existence of Disneyland (which I know is real) proves that we are not living in Judaea in… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
There are no private lives. This a most important aspect of modern life. One of the biggest transformations we have seen in… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Time and tide, he thought. The cycle of life. Ending in this, the last twilight. Before the silence of death. He perceived… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
People have told me that everything about me, every facet of my life, psyche, experiences, dreams, and fears, are laid out explicitly… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“A human being without the proper empathy or feeling is the same as an android built so as to lack it, either… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Even if all life on our planet is destroyed, there must be other life somewhere which we know nothing of. It is… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The tragedy in his life already existed. To love an atmospheric spirit. That was the real sorrow. Hopelessness itself. Nowhere on the… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
In Washington and Moscow they are saying, 'Man has finally come of age; he doesn't need paternalistic help.' Which is another way… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“All his life he had controlled machines, bent nature and the forces of nature to man and man's needs. The human race… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think this planet is under a spell," Elias said. "We are asleep or in a trance, and something causes us… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“I use this as a paradigm for our whole attitude toward life, what you did was you worked very hard, you try… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
But the actual touch of her lingered, inside his heart. That remained. In all the years of his life ahead, the long… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“It is—their unconsciousness. Their lack of knowledge about others. Their not being aware of what they do to others, the destruction they… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“It is my job to create universes, as the basis of one novel after another. And I have to build them in… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Metal is from the earth, he thought as he scrutinized. From below: from that realm which is the lowest, the most dense.… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The ultimate problem confronting me all my life has been the senseless injury to and neglect of my sister. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The pain, so unexpected and undeserved, had for some reason cleared away the cobwebs. I realized I didn’t hate the cabinet door,… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Metabolism, he reflected, is a burning process, an active furnace. When it ceases to function, life is over. They must be wrong… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Life in Anaheim, California, was a commercial for itself, endlessly replayed. Nothing changed; it just spread out farther and farther in the… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“But look at the aspirations of that rabbit and look at his failing. A little life trying. And all the time it… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“It's the basic condition of life to be required to violate our own identity.” — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic life without the talent. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
So we and our elaborately evolving computers may meet each other halfway. Someday a human being, named perhaps Fred White, may shoot a robot… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Even if all life on our planet is destroyed, there must be other life somewhere which we know nothing of. It is impossible that… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“That is not how you do it; you do not solve one problem with another, greater problem.” — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
For each person there is a sentence—a series of words—which has the power to destroy them. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Why does a man cry? he wondered. Not like a woman; not for that. Not for sentiment. A man cries over the loss of… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The day came. The wrath descended. Sin, guilt, and retribution? The manic psychoses of those entities we referred to as states, institutions, systems -… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“I see,' Rick said. He felt numb. Completely. Throughout his entire body.” — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“What is identity? he asked himself. Where does the act end? Nobody knows.” — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
You're killing yourself with cynicism. Your idols got taken away from you one by one and now you have nothing to give your love… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
What scared me the most was when my father would put on the gasmask. His face would disappear... This was not a human being… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
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