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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• The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them. Cries
• I did not tell Fat this, but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good idea to let… Able
• I became educated to the fact that the greatest pain does not come zooming down from a distant planet, but from the depths of the… Addition
• I never felt like that before. Maybe it could be depression, like you get. I can understand how you suffer now when you're depressed; I… Alone
• In a one-party system there is always a landslide. Inspirational
• How undisturbed, the sleep of the foolish. Foolish
• Guilt -- if there was any guilt -- spread out and diffused itself over everybody and everything. . . . Perhaps at some point in… Any
• Odd that the brain could function on its own, without acquainting him with its purposes, its reasons. But the brain was an organ, like the… Acquainting
• What they do not comprehend is man's helplessness. I am weak, small, of no consequence to the universe. It does not notice me; I live… Bad
• Human has always striven to retain the past, to keep it convincing; there's nothing wicked in that. Without it we have no continuity; we have… Always Striven
• But at least he can still see the lights below us. Although maybe for him it doesn't matter. Him
• He entered the elevator and together they moved closer to god Closer
• There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive. Alive
• Well, I hate to admit it, but it is possible that there is (one) such a thing as telepathy and (two) that the CETI project's… Admit
• The problem with introspection is that it has no end. End
• God is dead,' Nick said. 'They found his carcass in 2019. Floating in space near Alpha.' 'They found the remains of an organism advanced several… Advanced
• I guess that's the story of life: what you most fear never happens, but what you most yearn for never happens either. This is the… Difference
• Everything in life is just for a while. Funny
• Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find. Death
• There are no private lives. This a most important aspect of modern life. One of the biggest transformations we have seen in our society is… All
• The person I am now, compared with the person in the dream, has been baffled and defeated and only supposes he enjoys a full life.… Baffled
• 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… Alive
• When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. ... I must be scientific. Away Childish
• but as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself at one point, with no notion of… Alienation
• You have to be with other people, he thought. In order to live at all. I mean before they came here I could stand it...… All

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