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 bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing? Bird
• Reality denied comes back to haunt. Comes Back
• The odd thing in this world is that an eager-beaver type, with no original ideas, who mimes those in authority above him right to the… Always Gets
• In a civil war… every side is wrong. It’s hopeless to try to untangle it. Everyone is a victim. Civil
• No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it. Artificial
• …we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people. All
• Every junkie, he thought, is a recording. Every Junkie
• This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power. Agree
• They wanted to have a good time, but they were like children playing in the street; they could see one after another of them being… Children
• It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis,' or, put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking… Another Way
• She makes life over, he realized. She controls life, whereas I just sit on my can and let it happen to me. Controls
• He sat watching the people go by, wondering how a thing of this sort could have come about, I must have let myself get mixed… Account
• But the actual touch of her lingered, inside his heart. That remained. In all the years of his life ahead, the long years without her,… Actual
• In Washington and Moscow they are saying, 'Man has finally come of age; he doesn't need paternalistic help.' Which is another way of saying, 'We… Abolished
• I'm not much but I'm all I have. All
• We hypostatize information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is change in the content of the information; the message has changed. This is a language which… Ability
• Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it. Along
• 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… Book
• 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… Constantly
• There exists, for everyone, a sentence - a series of words - that has the power to destroy you. Another sentence exists, another series of… Another Sentence
• He started keeping a journal - had been, in fact, secretly doing so for some time: the furtive act of a deranged person. Act
• When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet. Crazy
• Sometimes I wish I knew how to go crazy. I forget how. Crazy
• To live is to be haunted. Funny
• Dilemma of civilized man; body mobilized, but danger obscure. Body

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