Philip K. Dick Quotes - Page 9

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• Little kids are that way; they feel if their parents aren't watching what they do then what they do isn't real.

  Philip K. Dick

  Real, Kids, Parent

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.141, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Amazed, Fat said, "She's decomposing and yet she's still giving birth?" "Only to monsters," Dr. Stone said.

  Philip K. Dick

  Giving, Stones, Monsters

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “VALIS”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Barefoot conducts his seminars on his houseboat in Sausalito. It costs a hundred dollars to find out why we are on this Earth. You also get a sandwich, but I wasn't hungry that day. John Lennon had just been killed and I think I know why we are on this Earth; it's to find out that what you love the most will be taken away from you, probably due to an error in high places rather than by design.

  Philip K. Dick

  Taken, Thinking, Errors

  Philip K. Dick (2015). “Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.13, Melville House

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• Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work.

  Philip K. Dick

  Lonely, Writing, Way

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

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• Guilt -- if there was any guilt -- spread out and diffused itself over everybody and everything. . . . Perhaps at some point in time, at some spot in the world, a moment of responsibility existed.

  Philip K. Dick

  Responsibility, Guilt, World

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• but as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself at one point, with no notion of how it could be, a step from an almost certain fatal cliffside fall—falling humiliatingly and helplessly, he thought; on and on, with no one even to witness it. Here there existed no one to record his or anyone else's degradation, and any courage or pride which might manifest itself here at the end would go unmarked: the dead stones, the dust-stricken weeds dry and dying, perceived nothing, recollected nothing, about him or themselves.

  Philip K. Dick

  Weed, Fall, Pride

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• The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.

  Philip K. Dick

  Regret, Trying, Cry

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My life and creative work are justified and completed by Blade Runner.

  Philip K. Dick

  Creative, Blade Runner, Justified

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• We are served by organic ghosts, he thought, who, speaking and writing, pass through this our new environment. Watching, wise, physical ghosts from the full-life world, elements of which have become for us invading but agreeable splinters of a substance that pulsates like a former heart.

  Philip K. Dick

  Wise, Writing, Heart

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Ubik”, p.225, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The frogs hopping indoors agree that we are on a prison planet. They themselves are frog criminals that were convicted of doing frog crimes.

  Philip K. Dick

  Frogs, Criminals, Prison

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• Why does a man cry? he wondered. Not like a woman; not for that. Not for sentiment. A man cries over the loss of something, something alive. A man can cry over a sick animal that he knows won't make it. The death of a child: a man can cry for that. But not because things are sad. A man, he thought, cries not for the future or the past but for the present.

  Philip K. Dick

  Children, Loss, Animal

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said”, p.236, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Madness, like small fish, runs in hosts, in vast numbers of instances.

  Philip K. Dick

  Running, Numbers, Host

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The Transmigration of Timothy Archer”, p.227, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But at least he can still see the lights below us. Although maybe for him it doesn't matter.

  Philip K. Dick

  Light, Matter, Stills

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.239, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The inanity of her remark infuriated him. 'Good grief don't you understand Janet? At this point I'm thoroughly delusional. I'm as mentally ill as it's possible to be. It's incredible that I can communicate with you at all. It's a credit to my ego-strength that I'm not at this point totally autistic.

  Philip K. Dick

  Grief, Ego, Credit

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The Simulacra”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Once a guy stood all day shaking bugs from his hair.

  Philip K. Dick

  Hair, Guy, Bugs

  Philip K. Dick, Pamela Jackson, Jonathan Lethem (2011). “The Exegesis of Philip K Dick”, p.946, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Basically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had hatched out the practical notion that nothing is more real than a large World War Two Soviet tank.

  Philip K. Dick

  Real, War, Ideas

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “VALIS”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every junkie, he thought, is a recording.

  Philip K. Dick

  Junkie

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.166, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think that, like in my writing, reality is always a soap bubble, Silly Putty thing anyway. In the universe people are in, people put their hands through the walls, and it turns out they're living in another century entirely. I often have the feeling — and it does show up in my books — that this is all just a stage.

  Philip K. Dick

  Wall, Silly, Book

  Science Fiction Review, August 1976.

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• He sat watching the people go by, wondering how a thing of this sort could have come about, I must have let myself get mixed up in something horrible, he thought ... Probably she's the one who did it; I have no control of myself or anything that's happened. So now I'm waking up. I'm awake, he thought ... I've been destroyed and now that I'm awake all I can do is realize it ... The shock of getting up there and telling that account made me see. Mixture of lies and bits of truth. Woven together. Unable to see where each starts.

  Philip K. Dick

  Lying, People, Together

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• Well, I hate to admit it, but it is possible that there is (one) such a thing as telepathy and (two) that the CETI project's idea that we might communicate with extraterrestrial beings via telepathy is possibly a reasonable idea--if telepathy exists and if ETIs exist. Otherwise we are trying to communicate with someone who doesn't exist with a system which doesn't work.

  Philip K. Dick

  Hate, Ideas, Two

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

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• He entered the elevator and together they moved closer to god

  Philip K. Dick

  Together, Elevators, Moved

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• I have seen myself backward.

  Philip K. Dick

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

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• Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane – not just insane but totally so – or else in an artful, professional fashion he had gotten Fat to talk; he had drawn Fat out and now knew that Fat was totally insane.

  Philip K. Dick

  Fashion, Two, Insane

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, p.61, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The day came. The wrath descended. Sin, guilt, and retribution? The manic psychoses of those entities we referred to as states, institutions, systems - the powers, the thrones, the dominations - the things which perpetually merge with men and emerge from them? Our darkness, externalized and visible? However you look upon these matters, the critical point was reached. The wrath descended.

  Philip K. Dick

  Men, Psychosis, Wrath

  Philip K. Dick (2013). “Deus Irae”, p.176, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We have entered a Moment when we are alone. We cannot get assistance, as before. Well, Mr. Tagomi thought, perhaps that too is good. Or can be made good. One must still try to find the Way.

  Philip K. Dick

  Trying, Way, Moments

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.235, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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