Philip K. Dick Quotes - Page 3

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• Either I've invented a whole new logic or, ahem, I'm not playing with a full deck.

  Philip K. Dick

  Statistics, Logic, Deck

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• Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world, a world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans.

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  Unique, Solitude, Different

  Philip K. Dick (1985). “I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon”, Doubleday Books

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• The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.

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  Education, Humorous, Learning

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm a strange person. Sometimes I hardly know what I'm going to do or say next. Sometimes I seem a stranger to myself. Sometimes what I do surprises me and I can't understand why I do it.

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  Strange Person, Next, Sometimes

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Solar Lottery”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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 hours.

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  Dream, Psychosis, Way

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “Valis”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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 and still go on. Sometimes what looks out at you from a person's eyes maybe died back in childhood.

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  Eye, Knowing, Childhood

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.252, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sometimes one must try anything, it is no disgrace. On the contrary, it is a sign of wisdom.

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  Trying, Statistics, Sometimes

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.240, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.

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  Insane, Becoming, Knows

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm tired and I want to rest; I want to get out of this and go lie down somewhere, off where it's dark and no one speaks. Forever.

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  Lying, Tired, Dark

  Philip K. Dick (1980). “Dr. Bloodmoney”, Dell Publishing Company

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• The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razor’s edge, sharper than a hound’s tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is more elusive than the merest phantom. Perhaps it does not even exist; perhaps it is a phantom.

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  Insanity, Teeth, Doe

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For each person there is a sentence—a series of words—which has the power to destroy them.

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  Sentences, Persons, Series

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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 we have lost the ability to read. We ourselves are a part of this language; changes in us are changes in the content of the information. We ourselves are information-rich; information enters us, is processed and is then projected outward once more, now in an altered form. We are not aware that we are doing this, that in fact this is all we are doing.

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  Information, Messages, Facts

  "VALIS".

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• ...the essence of the evil government is that it anticipates bad conduct on the part of its citizens. Any government which assumes that the population is going to do something evil has already lost its franchise to govern.

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  Government, Essence, Evil

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• Why is love so good...? You love someone and they leave. They come home one day and you say "What's happening?" and they say, "I got a better offer someplace else," and there they go, out of your life forever, and after that until you're dead you're carrying around this huge hunk of love with no one to give it to. And if you do find someone to give it to, the same thing happens all over.

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  Home, Giving, Forever

  Philip K. Dick (2008). “Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s”

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• Matter is plastic in the face of Mind.

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  Mind, Matter, Faces

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it.

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  Fate, Chaos, Structure

  Philip K. Dick (2013). “Galactic Pot-Healer”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Each of us assumes everyone else knows what HE is doing. They all assume we know what WE are doing. We don't...Nothing is going on and nobody knows what it is. Nobody is concealing anything except the fact that he does not understand anything anymore and wishes he could go home.

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  Home, Wish, Doe

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• Certainly it constitutes bad news if the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit.

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  People, News, Agree

  "Valis".

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• 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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  Weed, Beer, Wind

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• How undisturbed, the sleep of the foolish.

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  Sleep, Foolish

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• No matter how long a log stays in the water, it doesn't become a crocodile.

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  Long, Water, Matter

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• The church of my choice is the free, open world.

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  Choices, Church, World

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.

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  Terrible, Harder

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.274, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. If you’re afraid you don’t commit yourself to life completely; fear makes you always, always hold something back. You shouldn’t be alone. It’s killing you; it’s undermining you. All the time, every day, you should be somewhere with people.

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  Hate, People, Killing

  "Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said". Book by Philip K. Dick, Chapter 21 (p. 171), 1974.

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• I like her; I could watch her the rest of my life. She has breasts that smile.

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  Watches, Like Her, Breasts

  Philip K. Dick (2008). “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, p.183, Ballantine Books

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