Philip K. Dick Quotes - Page 7

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• But the actual touch of her lingered, inside his heart. That remained. In all the years of his life ahead, the long years without her, with never seeing her or hearing from her or knowing anything about her, if she was alive or happy or dead or what, that touch stayed locked within him, sealed in himself, and never went away. That one touch of her hand.

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  Heart, Hands, Years

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.164, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others.

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  Insanity, Inquiry, Constructs

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Martian Time-Slip”, p.219, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?'

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  Reality, Preoccupation, Majors

  "Dictionary of Literary Biography". Book by Gale, vol. 8, part 1, 1981.

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• Madness has its own dynamism. It just goes on.

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  Goes On, Madness, Dynamism

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, p.245, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality ?' Many of my stories and novels deal with psychotic states or drug-induced states by which I can present the concept of a multiverse rather than a universe. Music and sociology are themes in my novels, also radical political trends; in particular I've written about fascism and my fear of it.

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  Reality, Political, Drug

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• Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known this? Faced this? And-how many of us do know it? ... Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Waking up. I suppose only a few are aware of all this. Isolated persons here and there. But the broad masses-what do they think? All these hundreds of thousands in this city, here. Do they imagine that they live in a sane world? Or do they guess, glimpse, the truth...?

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  Depression, Thinking, Cities

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

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• Death hides within every religion. And at any time it can flash forth-not with healing in its wings but with poison, with that which wounds.

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  Healing, Wings, Poison

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “VALIS”, p.195, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The hell with the newspapers. Nobody reads the letters to the editor column except the nuts. It's enough to get you down.

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  Editors, Nuts, Letters

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Confessions of a Crap Artist”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In one of the most brilliant papers in the English language Hume made it clear that what we speak of as 'causality' is nothing more than the phenomenon of repetition. When we mix sulphur with saltpeter and charcoal we always get gunpowder. This is true of every event subsumed by a causal law in other words, everything which can be called scientific knowledge. "It is custom which rules ," Hume said, and in that one sentence undermined both science and philosophy .

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  Philosophy, Law, Gunpowder

  "To The High Castle: Philip K. Dick: A Life 1928-1962". Book by Gregg Rickman, 1989.

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• The pain, so unexpected and undeserved, had for some reason cleared away the cobwebs. I realized I didn’t hate the cabinet door, I hated my life… My house, my family, my backyard, my power mower. Nothing would ever change; nothing new could ever be expected. It had to end, and it did. Now in the dark world where I dwell, ugly things, and surprising things, and sometimes little wondrous things, spill out in me constantly, and I can count on nothing.

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  Pain, Hate, Dark

  "A Scanner Darkly". Book by Philip K. Dick, 1977.

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• The psychotic does not merely think he sees four blue bivalves with floppy wings wandering up the wall; he does see them. An hallucination is not, strictly speaking, manufactured in the brain; it is received by the brain, like any 'real' sense datum, and the patient act in response to this to-him-very-real perception of reality in as logical a way as we do to our sense data. In any way to suppose he only 'thinks he sees it' is to misunderstand totally the experience of psychosis.

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  Wall, Real, Thinking

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

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• 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 spleen, heart, kidneys. And they went about their private activities. So why not the brain?

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  Heart, Brain, Purpose

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man Who Japed”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every time I see a picture of Stalin I look him square in the eye and I say: You're a meat eater, Joseph.

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  Eye, Squares, Meat

  Philip K. Dick (2007). “Voices From the Street”, p.67, Macmillan

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• In a nutshell-I fear authority but at the same time I resent it-the authority and my own fear. So I rebel.

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  Rebel, Authority, Resent

  Philip K. Dick (2007). “Vintage PKD”, p.124, Vintage

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• Don't never participate in no bad scenes, he reminded himself; that was his motto in life.

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  Motto, Scene

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Can anyone alter fate? All of us combined... or one great figure... or someone strategically placed, who happens to be in the right spot. Chance. Accident. And our lives, our world, hanging on it.

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  Fate, Our World, Hanging On

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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 felt himself to be a squat, oily, sweating, uneducated nurt whose stomach rattled and whose breath wheezed. Near her he became aware of the physical mechanisms which kept him alive; within him machinery, pipes and valves and gas-compressors and fan belts had to chug away at a losing task, a labor ultimately doomed. Seeing her face, he discovered that his own consisted of a garish mask; noticing her body made him feel like a low-class wind-up toy.

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  Blood, Wind, Class

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Ubik”, p.62, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One thing I've found that I can do that I really enjoy is rereading my own writing, earlier stories and novels especially. It induces mental time travel, the same way certain songs you hear on the radio do ... the whole thing returns, an eerie feeling that I'm sure you've experienced.

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  Song, Writing, Eerie

  "The Golden Man". Book by Philip K. Dick, 1980.

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• The Logos was both that which thought, and the thing which it thought: thinker and thought together. The universe, then, is thinker and thought, and since we are part of it, we as humans are, in the final analysis, thoughts of and thinkers of those thoughts.

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  Together, Finals, Analysis

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

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• They wanted to have a good time, but they were like children playing in the street; they could see one after another of them being killed--run over, maimed, destroyed--but they continued to play anyhow.

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  Running, Children, Play

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.287, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Life ... is only heavy and none else; there is only the one trip, all heavy. Heavy that leads to the grave. For everyone and everything.

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  Life, Life Is, Graves

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

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• Maybe I'll go where I can see stars, he said to himself as the car gained velocity and altitude; it headed away from San Francisco, toward the uninhabited desolation to the north. To the place where no living thing would go. Not unless it felt that the end had come.

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  Stars, San Francisco, Car

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

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• I am Ubik. Before the universe was, I am. I made the suns. I made the worlds. I created the lives and the places they inhabit; I move them here, I put them there. They go as I say, then do as I tell them. I am the word and my name is never spoken, the name which no one knows. I am called Ubik, but that is not my name. I am. I shall always be.

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  Moving, Names, World

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Ubik”, p.226, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She makes life over, he realized. She controls life, whereas I just sit on my can and let it happen to me.

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  Lifestyle, Happens

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Confessions of a Crap Artist”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You know how people are about not taking care of an animal; they consider it immoral and antiempathic. I mean, technically it's not a crime like it was right after WWT but the feeling's still there.

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  Mean, Animal, People

  Philip K. Dick (2008). “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, p.13, Ballantine Books

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