Philip K. Dick Quotes - Page 8

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• I love you,' Rachael said. 'If I entered a room and found a sofa covered with your hide I'd score very high on the Voigt-Kampff test.

  Philip K. Dick

  Love You, Tests, Rooms

  Philip K. Dick (1996). “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, Random House LLC

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• We should take mothers in high seas and drown them there, they are as poisonous as lead in the air.

  Philip K. Dick

  Mother, Air, Sea

  "Dark Haired Girl". Book by Philip K. Dick, 1989.

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• I did not tell Fat this, but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good idea to let him know. After all, if you are a Buddha you should be able to figure it out for yourself.

  Philip K. Dick

  Ideas, Able, Figures

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “Valis”, p.131, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And of course, in my writing, there is the constant theme of music, love of, preoccupation with, music. Music is the single thread making my life into a coherency.

  Philip K. Dick

  Writing, Music Love, Preoccupation

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

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• What is possible and what is not possible is not objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the author and of the reader.

  Philip K. Dick

  Statistics, Belief, Reader

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

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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.

  Philip K. Dick

  Writing, People, Mind

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

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• Upon him the contempt of three planets descended.

  Philip K. Dick

  Three, Planets, Contempt

  Philip K. Dick (2008). “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, p.19, Ballantine Books

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• What scared me the most was when my father would put on the gasmask. His face would disappear... This was not a human being at all.

  Philip K. Dick

  Father, Faces, Scared

  Philip K. Dick (1991). “The collected stories: The minority report”

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• Life in Anaheim, California, was a commercial for itself, endlessly replayed. Nothing changed; it just spread out farther and farther in the form of neon ooze. What there was always more of had been congealed into permanence long ago, as if the automatic factory that cranked out these objects had jammed in the on position.

  Philip K. Dick

  Long Ago, California, Neon

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.29, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In this dark world where he now dwelt, ugly things and surprising things and once in a long while a tiny wondrous thing spilled out at him constantly; he could count on nothing.

  Philip K. Dick

  Dark, Ugly Things, Long

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You mean old books?" "Stories written before space travel but about space travel." "How could there have been stories about space travel before --" "The writers," Pris said, "made it up.

  Philip K. Dick

  Book, Mean, Space

  Philip K. Dick (2017). “Blade Runner”, p.112, Hachette UK

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• I was twelve when I read my first sf magazine

  Philip K. Dick

  Twelve, Magazines, Firsts

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

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• I'd like to see you move up to the goat class, where I think you belong.

  Philip K. Dick

  Moving, Thinking, Class

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• Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything.

  Philip K. Dick

  Sorry, Writing, Fiction

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

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• The silence of the world could not rein back it's greed. Not any longer. Not when it had virtually won.

  Philip K. Dick

  Silence, Greed, World

  Philip K. Dick (2008). “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, p.20, Ballantine Books

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• I mean, knowing people, people are terrified of the unknown and they want to just kill the unknown.

  Philip K. Dick

  Mean, Knowing, People

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• Men and the world are mutually toxic to each other.

  Philip K. Dick

  Men, Toxic, World

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick”, p.444, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You have to be with other people, he thought. In order to live at all. I mean before they came here I could stand it... But now it has changed. You can't go back, he thought. You can't go from people to nonpeople." - J.R. Isidore

  Philip K. Dick

  Mean, Order, People

  Philip K. Dick (2008). “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, p.204, Ballantine Books

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• You must beware of seeing malice behind accidental injury.

  Philip K. Dick

  Injury, Malice, Behinds

  "Clans of the Alphane Moon". Book by Philip K. Dick, Ch. 11, 1964.

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• But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic life without the talent.

  Philip K. Dick

  Artist, Talent, Bohemian

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch”, p.170, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The tragedy in his life already existed. To love an atmospheric spirit. That was the real sorrow. Hopelessness itself. Nowhere on the printed page, nowhere in the annals of man, would her name appear: no local habitation, no name. There are girls like that, he thought, and those you love most, the ones where there is no hope because it has eluded you at the very moment you close your hands around it.

  Philip K. Dick

  Love, Girl, Real

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

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• It's easy to win. Anybody can win.

  Philip K. Dick

  Sunset, Winning, Easy

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.246, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Are we to assist it in gaining power in order to save our lives? Is that the paradox of our earthly situation?

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  Order, Gaining Power, Life Is

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.200, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What they do not comprehend is man's helplessness. I am weak, small, of no consequence to the universe. It does not notice me; I live on unseen. But why is that bad? Isn't it that way? Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small... and you will escape the jealousy of the great.

  Philip K. Dick

  Men, Unseen, Doe

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I never felt like that before. Maybe it could be depression, like you get. I can understand how you suffer now when you're depressed; I always thought you liked it and I thought you could have snapped yourself out any time, if not alone then my means of the mood organ. But when you get that depressed you don't care. Apathy, because you've lose a sense of worth. It doesn't matter whether you feel better because you have no worth.

  Philip K. Dick

  Mean, Feel Better, Suffering

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