Philip K. Dick Quotes - Page 5

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• How can days and happenings and moments so good become so quickly ugly, and for no reason, for no real reason? Just - change. With nothing causing it.

  Philip K. Dick

  Real, Ugly, Moments

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

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• The will to believe chases out the rational mind, whenever and wherever the two come into conflict.

  Philip K. Dick

  Believe, Umpires, Two

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The Transmigration of Timothy Archer”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I believe, I am crazy. When I don’t believe,
  I suffer psychotic depression.

  Philip K. Dick

  Crazy, Believe, Suffering

  Philip K. Dick, Pamela Jackson, Jonathan Lethem (2011). “The Exegesis of Philip K Dick”, p.714, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Giving me a a new idea is like handing a cretin a gun, but I do thank you anyhow, bang bang.

  Philip K. Dick

  Gun, Ideas, Giving

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• A man is an angel that has gone deranged.

  Philip K. Dick

  Angel, Men, Gone

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• I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much richer and more meaningful.

  Philip K. Dick

  Meaningful, Art, Men

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Eye in the Sky”, p.108, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What constitutes the authentic human being?

  Philip K. Dick

  Humans, Human Beings

  "Philip K. Dick: Speaking with the Dead". Interview with Erik Davis, roychristopher.com. July 14th, 2003.

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• Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.

  Philip K. Dick

  Moving, Errors, Car

  1977 A Scanner Darkly, author's note.

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• 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 last twist of necktie and scrape of chin, always gets noticed. Gets selected. Rises.

  Philip K. Dick

  Ideas, Twists, Odd Things

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Time Out of Joint”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The wisest people are the clowns, like Harpo Marx, who would not speak. If I could have anything I want I would like God to listen to what Harpo was not saying, and understand why Harpo would not talk.

  Philip K. Dick

  Wisdom, People, Want

  Philip K. Dick (2007). “Vintage PKD”, p.126, Vintage

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• (Insanity) is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate - confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man.

  Philip K. Dick

  Pride, Men, Confusion

  "The Man in the High Castle". Book by Philip K. Dick, 1962.

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• All responsible writers, to some degree, have become involuntary criers of doom, because doom is in the wind

  Philip K. Dick

  Wind, Degrees, Responsible

  Philip K. Dick (1995). “The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings”, Vintage

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• Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

  Philip K. Dick

  Sorry, Writing, Fiction

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

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• Human has always striven to retain the past, to keep it convincing; there's nothing wicked in that. Without it we have no continuity; we have only the moment. And, deprived of the past, the moment - the present - has little meaning, if any.

  Philip K. Dick

  Past, Wicked, Littles

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “Now Wait for Last Year”, p.29, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The person I am now, compared with the person in the dream, has been baffled and defeated and only supposes he enjoys a full life. In the dreams, I see what a full life really consists of, and it is not what I really have.

  Philip K. Dick

  Dream, Baffled, Defeated

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, p.126, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside.

  Philip K. Dick

  Life, Reality, Fluttering

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Ubik”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The unconscious is selective, when it learns what to listen for.

  Philip K. Dick

  Unconscious, Selective

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.208, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He started keeping a journal - had been, in fact, secretly doing so for some time: the furtive act of a deranged person.

  Philip K. Dick

  Facts, Deranged, Persons

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “VALIS”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How'd you like to gaze at a beer can throughout eternity? It might not be so bad. There'd be nothing to fear.

  Philip K. Dick

  Beer, Might, Eternity

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

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• People have told me that everything about me, every facet of my life, psyche, experiences, dreams, and fears, are laid out explicitly in my writing, that from the corpus of my work I can be absolutely and precisely inferred. This is true.

  Philip K. Dick

  Dream, Writing, People

  Philip K. Dick (2007). “Vintage PKD”, p.129, Vintage

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• Can we consider the universe real, and if so, in what way?

  Philip K. Dick

  Real, Statistics, Way

  Philip K. Dick (1990). “The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick: The minority report”

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• Everything is true Everything anybody has ever thought

  Philip K. Dick

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• Dilemma of civilized man; body mobilized, but danger obscure.

  Philip K. Dick

  Men, Body, Obscure

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.175, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.

  Philip K. Dick

  Alive, Want, Existentialism

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If I'd known it was harmless, I'd have killed it myself!

  Philip K. Dick

  Known, Ifs, Pointlessness

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