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Own Quotes by Philip K. Dick
- 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…
- How much of what we call 'reality' is actually out there or rather within our own head?
- In a nutshell-I fear authority but at the same time I resent it-the authority and my own fear. So I rebel.
- 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…
- You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your…
- The painting showed a hairless, oppressed creature with a head like an inverted pear, its hands clapped in horror to its ears, its mouth open…
- 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…
- …we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.
- 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…
- It did not seem possible that Wendy Wright had been born out of blood and internal organs like other people. In proximity to her he…
- The most dangerous kind of person... is one who is afraid of his own shadow.
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