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From Quotes by Philip K. Dick
- That is the artist's job: take mineral rock from dark silent earth, transform it into shining light-reflecting form from sky.
- 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.
- Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world, a world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans.
- Barefoot conducts his seminars on his houseboat in Sausalito. It costs a hundred dollars to find out why we are on this Earth. You also…
- Maybe I'll go where I can see stars, he said to himself as the car gained velocity and altitude; it headed away from San Francisco,…
- Basically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had hatched out the…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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...…
- 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,…
- In a sense, the better you adapt to school the less your chances are of later adapting to the actual world. So I figure, the…
- We are served by organic ghosts, he thought, who, speaking and writing, pass through this our new environment. Watching, wise, physical ghosts from the full-life…
- Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart from a meat diet. Because,ultimately, the empathic gift blurred…
- He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside.
- Once a guy stood all day shaking bugs from his hair.
- Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die…
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