"There was a beauty in the trash of……" — Philip K. Dick
"There was a beauty in the trash of the alleys which I had never noticed before; my vision seemed sharpened, rather than impaired. As I walked along it seemed to me that the flattened beer cans and papers and weeds and junk mail had been arranged by the wind into patterns; these patterns, when I scrutinized them, lay distributed so as to comprise a visual language."
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181 Quotes by Philip K. Dick
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No man is infinitely strong; for every creature that runs, flies, hops or crawls there is a terminal nemesis which…
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Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power.…
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The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the…
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Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying,
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The psychotic does not merely think he sees four blue bivalves with floppy wings wandering up the wall; he does…
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Giving me a a new idea is like handing a cretin a gun, but I do thank you anyhow, bang…
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Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others.
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That is the artist's job: take mineral rock from dark silent earth, transform it into shining light-reflecting form from sky.
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A lot can be said for the infinite mercies of God, but the smarts of a good pharmacist, when you…
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I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own…
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In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out…
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Those who refused to respond to new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish.
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The good chip allows you to whistle while you walk in the dark alleys of golf.
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If you can't beat 'em in the alley, you can't beat 'em on the ice.
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Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
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All that proves is that most of the world is too poor to build bowling alleys, golf courses, tennis courts…
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In the Bowling Alley of Tomorrow, there will even be machines that wear rental shoes and throw the ball for…
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The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold,…
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His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand.…
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The next time you find yourself alone in a dark alley facing the undeniables of life, don't cover them with…
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As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard…
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