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Time Quotes by Philip K. Dick

39 Time quotes by Philip K. Dick

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Philip K. Dick looks at time through tiny stories and big ideas. He describes a rabbit’s hopeful attempts, the universe as pure information, and how guilt can spread across everything. He also talks about fearing authority while rebelling and about future worries like spying phones, showing how personal and cosmic worries mix.

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“No one, it appeared to Barney, had anything to do now; the weight of empty time hung over them all.”

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“in Parsifal: "You see, my son, here time turns into space.”

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In a nutshell-I fear authority but at the same time I resent it-the authority and my own fear. So I rebel.

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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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“I think," Dr. Stone said, "that when you tried to kill yourself you got in touch with reality for the first time.”

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“no one can err in serving steak to new-found guest first time.”

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Movies like 'Westworld' used ideas I'd thought of a long time ago.

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Every time I see a picture of Stalin I look him square in the eye and I say: You're a meat eater,…

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How can days and happenings and moments so good become so quickly ugly, and for no reason, for no real reason? Just…

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I started reading SF when I was about twelve and I read all I could, so any author who was writing about…

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“In our time we maintain colonies on Mars, on Luna; we’re perfecting workable interstellar flight—these people have not been able to cope…

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Death hides within every religion. And at any time it can flash forth-not with healing in its wings but with poison, with…

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“Future and past blurred; what he had already experienced and what he would eventually experience blended so that nothing remained but the…

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They wanted to have a good time, but they were like children playing in the street; they could see one after another…

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“You learn to get by from day to day," Sam Regan said sympathetically to him. "You never think in longer terms. Just…

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There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone…

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“Make it?" Fred echoed. "Make what? The team? The chick? Make good? Make out? Make sense? Make money? Make time? Define your…

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Human has always striven to retain the past, to keep it convincing; there's nothing wicked in that. Without it we have no…

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“We really do see astigmatically, in fundamental sense: our space and time creations of our own psyche and when these momentarily falter…

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One thing I've found that I can do that I really enjoy is rereading my own writing, earlier stories and novels especially.…

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“But look at the aspirations of that rabbit and look at his failing. A little life trying. And all the time it…

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“I don't have time to read popular fiction. I'm too busy with work.' Secretaries, he thought acidly, read that junk, at home…

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God can be good and terrible-not in succession-but at the same time. This is why we seek a mediator between us and…

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“Retrograde time is forward time which has passed the turning point; then as it turns back it is freighted with the load…

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“They stole my bank account,” Gloria said. After a time he realized, from her measured, lucidly stated narration, that no “they” existed.…

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“At that moment, when I had the TV sound off, I was in a 382 mood; I had just dialed it. So…

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“Once, in a cheap science fiction novel, Fat had come across a perfect description of the Black Iron Prison, but set in…

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“In Southern California it didn't make any difference anyhow where you went; there was always the same McDonaldburger place over and over,…

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“The anti-precog has to be present when the precog is in the process of deciding, not after. The anti-precog makes all futures…

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“He saw two stars collapse against one another and a nova form; it flared up and then, as he watched, it began…

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“Things happen fast, during the time of transition in a totalitarian society.”

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“Eventually he forgot what event had started off his decline into entropy; God mercifully occludes us to the past as well as…

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He started keeping a journal - had been, in fact, secretly doing so for some time: the furtive act of a deranged…

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The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and…

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A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To…

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We have entered a Moment when we are alone. We cannot get assistance, as before. Well, Mr. Tagomi thought, perhaps that too…

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“Time and tide, he thought. The cycle of life. Ending in this, the last twilight. Before the silence of death. He perceived…

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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…

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Guilt -- if there was any guilt -- spread out and diffused itself over everybody and everything. . . . Perhaps at…

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So we and our elaborately evolving computers may meet each other halfway. Someday a human being, named perhaps Fred White, may shoot a robot…

Even if all life on our planet is destroyed, there must be other life somewhere which we know nothing of. It is impossible that…

“That is not how you do it; you do not solve one problem with another, greater problem.”

For each person there is a sentence—a series of words—which has the power to destroy them.

I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world…

Why does a man cry? he wondered. Not like a woman; not for that. Not for sentiment. A man cries over the loss of…

The day came. The wrath descended. Sin, guilt, and retribution? The manic psychoses of those entities we referred to as states, institutions, systems -…

The church of my choice is the free, open world.

“I see,' Rick said. He felt numb. Completely. Throughout his entire body.”

“What is identity? he asked himself. Where does the act end? Nobody knows.”

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…

What scared me the most was when my father would put on the gasmask. His face would disappear... This was not a human being…

“A man is an angel that has become deranged, Joe Fernwright thought. Once they – all of them – had been genuine angels, and…

“When do I see a photograph, when a reflection?”

My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?'