Philip K. Dick Quotes - Page 6

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• Fish cannot carry guns.

  Philip K. Dick

  Gun, Fishes

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “VALIS”, p.188, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In a civil war… every side is wrong. It’s hopeless to try to untangle it. Everyone is a victim.

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  War, Trying, Sides

  Philip K. Dick (1979). “Time Out of Joint”

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• Should we have a leader or should we think for ourselves? Obviously the latter in principle. But-sometimes there lies a gulf between what is theoretically right and that which is practical.

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  Lying, Thinking, Leader

  "The Last of the Masters". Book by Philip K. Dick, p. 337, 1954.

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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.

  Philip K. Dick

  Jobs, Dark, Artist

  Philip K. Dick (2007). “Four novels of the 1960s”

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• Emigrate or Degenerate.

  Philip K. Dick

  Degenerates

  Philip K. Dick (2008). “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, p.8, Ballantine Books

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• I will never fully understand; that is the nature of such creatures. Or is this Inner Truth now, this that is happening to me? I will wait. I will see. Which it is. Perhaps it is both.

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  Waiting, Creatures, Happenings

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.254, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Any system which says, This is a rotten world, wait for the next, give up, do nothing, succumb--that may be the basic Lie and if we participate in believing it and acting (or rather not acting) on it we involve ourselves in the Lie and suffer dreadfully... which only reinforces that particular Lie.

  Philip K. Dick

  Giving Up, Lying, Believe

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components.

  Philip K. Dick

  Other Worlds, Evil, Different

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.260, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is futile to try to make the universe add up. But I guess we must go on anyhow.

  Philip K. Dick

  Trying, Add, Goes On

  Philip K. Dick (1990). “Beyond Lies the Wub”

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• In a one-party system there is always a landslide.

  Philip K. Dick

  Party, Landslides

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• I, for one, bet on science as helping us. I have yet to see how it fundamentally endangers us, even with the H-bomb lurking about. Science has given us more lives than it has taken; we must
  remember that.

  Philip K. Dick

  Taken, Bombs, Helping

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

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• In Washington and Moscow they are saying, 'Man has finally come of age; he doesn't need paternalistic help.' Which is another way of saying, 'We have abolished that help, and in its place we will rule,' offering no help at all: taking but not giving, ruling but not obeying, telling but not listening, taking life and not giving it. The slayers govern now, without interference; the dreams of mankind have become empty.

  Philip K. Dick

  Dream, Men, Offering

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• 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 actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards. Okay, so I should revise my standards; I'm out of step. I should yield to reality. I have never yielded to reality. That's what SF is all about. If you wish to yield to reality, go read Philip Roth; read the New York literary establishment mainstream bestselling writers

  Philip K. Dick

  New York, Writing, Reality

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

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• Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.' 'Will you be all right?' 'I'll be all right,' he said, and thought, And I'm going to die. Both those are true, too.

  Philip K. Dick

  Said, Dies

  Philip K. Dick (2008). “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, p.227, Ballantine Books

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• When he turned on the tape-transport once more, Arctor was saying, "-- as near as I can figure out, God is dead." Luckman answered, "I didn't know He was sick.

  Philip K. Dick

  Sick, Tape, Figures

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.209, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I mean, after all, you have to consider we're only made out of dust. That's admittedly not much to go on and we shouldn't forget that. But even considering, I mean it's sort of a bad beginning, we're not doing too bad. So I personally have faith that even in this lousy situation we're faced with we can make it. You get me?

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  Mean, Dust, Goes On

  1966 The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, closing words.

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• I must admit that the existence of Disneyland (which I know is real) proves that we are not living in Judaea in 50 AD. . . . Saint Paul would never go near Disneyland. Only children, tourists, and visiting Soviet high officials ever go to Disneyland. Saints do not.

  Philip K. Dick

  Children, Real, Tourists

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

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• How can justice fall victim, ever, to what is right?

  Philip K. Dick

  Fall, Justice, Victim

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• "Do you have information that there's an android in the cast? I'd be glad to help you, and if I were an android would I be glad to help you?" "An android," he said, "doesn't care what happens to another android. That's one of the indications we look for." "Then," Miss Luft said, "you must be an android."

  Philip K. Dick

  Missing, Looks, Care

  "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: The inspiration for the films Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049".

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• Skill is a function of chance. It’s an intuitive best-use of chance situations.

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  Skills, Use, Chance

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Solar Lottery”, p.61, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You know what the doctor said to me to cheer me up?" Fat said. "There are worse diseases than cancer." "Did he show you slides?" We both laughed. When you are nearly crazy with grief, you laugh at what you can.

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  Cheer, Crazy, Cancer

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If the last to know he’s an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected.

  Philip K. Dick

  Mean, Men, Addiction

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You're - psychotic. There's something wrong with you." "I know," Benteley agreed. "I'm a sick man. And the more I see, the sicker I get. I'm so sick I think everybody else is sick and I'm the only healthy person. That's pretty bad off, isn't it?

  Philip K. Dick

  Men, Thinking, Sick

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Solar Lottery”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if all of us are real.

  Philip K. Dick

  Real, Writing, Wonder

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• Sometimes I wish I knew how to go crazy. I forget how.

  Philip K. Dick

  Crazy, Wish, Sometimes

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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