Philip K. Dick ✓

(1928–1982) novelist United States

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[Wikipedia] Philip Kindred Dick was an American science fiction short story writer and novelist. He wrote 45 novels and about 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines. His fiction explored varied philosophical and social questions such as the nature of reality, perception, human na

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• All responsible writers, to some degree, have become involuntary criers of doom, because doom is in the wind All
• I will never fully understand; that is the nature of such creatures. Or is this Inner Truth now, this that is happening to me? I… Both
• We do not have an ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right… Cognition
• You must beware of seeing malice behind accidental injury. Accidental
• 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 to. Cynicism
• My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?' Inspirational
• We should take mothers in high seas and drown them there, they are as poisonous as lead in the air. Air
• Many men talk like philosophers and live like fools. Fool
• Skill is a function of chance. It’s an intuitive best-use of chance situations. Best
• Men and the world are mutually toxic to each other. Each
• What constitutes the authentic human being? Authentic
• Everything is true Everything anybody has ever thought Anybody
• In a society of criminals, the innocent man goes to jail. Criminals
• How can justice fall victim, ever, to what is right? Fall
• 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,… Adult
• In a nutshell-I fear authority but at the same time I resent it-the authority and my own fear. So I rebel. Authority
• Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world, a world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. All
• The wisest people are the clowns, like Harpo Marx, who would not speak. If I could have anything I want I would like God to… Clown
• I was twelve when I read my first sf magazine Firsts
• I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we… All
• 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… Basic
• It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane. Appropriate
• The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are… Banking
• 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… Call
• This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this… Calmly

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