Philip K. Dick
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This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they c... PHILIP K. DICK What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy... PHILIP K. DICK Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. PHILIP K DICK The existence of a majority logically implies a corresponding minority. PHILIP K. DICK I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, no... PHILIP K. DICK I am a fictionalizing philosopher, not a novelist; my novel & story-writing ability is employed as a... PHILIP K. DICK No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of ever... PHILIP K. DICK Certainly it constitutes bad news when the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit. PHILIP K. DICK If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others. PHILIP K. DICK The problem with introspection is that it has no end. PHILIP K. DICK Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and e... PHILIP K. DICK Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. PHILIP K. DICK It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane. PHILIP K. DICK It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility t... PHILIP K. DICK but as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself ... PHILIP K. DICK The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your lif... PHILIP K. DICK I was twelve when I read my first sf magazine PHILIP K. DICK Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science... PHILIP K. DICK Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it. PHILIP K. DICK And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her prof... PHILIP K. DICK I mean, after all; you have to consider we're only made out of dust. That's admittedly not much to g... PHILIP K. DICK Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving c... PHILIP K. DICK Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willin... PHILIP K. DICK If I'd known it was harmless, I'd have killed it myself! PHILIP K. DICK Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night. PHILIP K. DICK Because her general taste appalled him, it annoyed him that he himself constituted one of her favori... PHILIP K. DICK When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet. PHILIP K. DICK The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the ... PHILIP K. DICK We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by b... PHILIP K. DICK I am basically analytical, not creative; my writing is simply a creative way of handling analysis. PHILIP K. DICK There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it... PHILIP K. DICK Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane. PHILIP K. DICK So we and our elaborately evolving computers may meet each other halfway. Someday a human being, nam... PHILIP K. DICK A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for w... PHILIP K. DICK The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. I you can control the m... PHILIP K. DICK Retrograde time is forward time which has passed the turning point; then as it turns back it is frei... PHILIP K. DICK I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, no... PHILIP K. DICK Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about sci... PHILIP K. DICK Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments... PHILIP K. DICK Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it PHILIP K. DICK Just tell me why; why the fucking why?" To which the universe would hollowly respond, "My ways canno... PHILIP K. DICK Christ on the crapper, PHILIP K. DICK The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them. PHILIP K. DICK To live is to be haunted. PHILIP K. DICK I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, no... PHILIP K. DICK Grief reunites you with what you've lost. It's a merging; you go with the loved thing or person that... PHILIP K. DICK The Martians are always coming. PHILIP K. DICK Reality denied comes back to haunt. PHILIP K. DICK Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then. PHILIP K. DICK This is a mournful discovery.PHILIP K. DICK If this place were closer to Terra there’d be empty beer cans and plastic plates strewn around. Th... PHILIP K. DICK It’s not just the drive. They’re right out front. Everywhere. Waiting for me. All day and night.... PHILIP K. DICK The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher PHILIP K. DICK I'm not much but I'm all I have. PHILIP K. DICK Their view; it is cosmic. Not of a man here, a child there, but an abstraction: race, land. Volk.... PHILIP K. DICK There exists, for everyone, a sentence - a series of words - that has the power to destroy you. Anot... PHILIP K. DICK But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic ... PHILIP K. DICK We'll fight back, we'll fight back, we'll fight back," a man near Doctor Stockstill was chanting. St... PHILIP K. DICK All his life he had controlled machines, bent nature and the forces of nature to man and man's needs... PHILIP K. DICK From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematicall... PHILIP K. DICK Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small… and you will escape the jealousy of the great. PHILIP K. DICK In the center of an irrational universe governed by an irrational Mind stands rational man. PHILIP K. DICK You're - psychotic. There's something wrong with you."PHILIP K. DICK There, at her console, he dialed 594: pleased acknowledgement of husband's superior wisdom in all ma... PHILIP K. DICK I can see Richard Wagner standing at the gates of heaven. "You have to let me in," he says. "I wrote... PHILIP K. DICK Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane... PHILIP K. DICK It requires the greatest kind of wisdom, she thought, to know when to apply injustice. How can justi... PHILIP K. DICK Quite an experience to live in fear, isn’t it? That’s what it is to be a slave. PHILIP K. DICK It is—their unconsciousness. Their lack of knowledge about others. Their not being aware of what t... PHILIP K. DICK You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be re... PHILIP K. DICK When I believe, I am crazy. When I don't believe, I suffer psychotic depression. PHILIP K. DICK Once, in a cheap science fiction novel, Fat had come across a perfect description of the Black Iron ... PHILIP K. DICK Exactly what the powers of hell feed on: the best instincts in man. PHILIP K. DICK Matter is plastic in the face of Mind. PHILIP K. DICK They ought to make it a binding clause that if you find God you get to keep Him. PHILIP K. DICK Basically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to... PHILIP K. DICK Sometimes I dream--"PHILIP K. DICK The exegesis Fat labored on month after month struck me as a Pyrrhic victory if there ever was one -... PHILIP K. DICK Men and the world are mutually toxic to each other. PHILIP K. DICK You know what the doctor said to me to cheer me up?" Fat said. "There are worse diseases than cancer... PHILIP K. DICK We hypostatize information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is change in the content of the in... PHILIP K. DICK What he did not know then is that it is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane. PHILIP K. DICK The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory t... PHILIP K. DICK I did not tell Fat this, but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good i... PHILIP K. DICK Each of us assumes everyone else knows what HE is doing. They all assume we know what WE are doing. ... PHILIP K. DICK It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily percei... PHILIP K. DICK Everybody knows that Aristotelian two-value logic is fucked. PHILIP K. DICK Fish cannot carry guns. PHILIP K. DICK The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razor’s edge, sharper than a hound�... PHILIP K. DICK Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold somethin... PHILIP K. DICK There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive. PHILIP K. DICK It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis,' or, put another way, a psychosis ... PHILIP K. DICK Eierkopf. Egghead. Because the big double-domed empty heads break so easily . . . in the street braw... PHILIP K. DICK No single thing abides; and all things are fucked up. PHILIP K. DICK Well, I hate to admit it, but it is possible that there is (one) such a thing as telepathy and (two)... PHILIP K. DICK I could see why she felt attracted to Sam K. Barrows. Birds of a feather, or rather lizards of a sca... PHILIP K. DICK Empathy, evidently, existed only within the human community, whereas intelligence to some degree cou... PHILIP K. DICK Maybe it's you fuckers," Fred said, "who're seeing the universe backward, like in a mirror. Maybe I ... PHILIP K. DICK Maybe I shouldn’t have told you––about it being electrical.” She put her hand out, touched h... PHILIP K. DICK It's easy to win. Anybody can win. PHILIP K. DICK Ruth said, "Love isn't just wanting another person the way you want to own an object you see in a st... PHILIP K. DICK Consciousness of unconsciousness PHILIP K. DICK He felt the pressure of her love as she squeezed his fingers, and then there was nothing. Except the... PHILIP K. DICK Ruth said, "Love isn't just wanting another person the way you want to own an object you see in a st... PHILIP K. DICK Why does a man cry? he wondered. Not like a woman; not for that. Not for sentiment. A man cries over... PHILIP K. DICK Grief causes you to leave yourself. You step outside your narrow little pelt. And you can’t feel g... PHILIP K. DICK Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. If you’re afraid you don’t commit yoursel... PHILIP K. DICK Why is love so good...? You love someone and they leave. They come home one day and you say "What's ... PHILIP K. DICK It's amazing the limitation of the human anatomy, the fact that food and air must share a common pas... PHILIP K. DICK In this particular lifestyle the motto is “Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying,” but the... PHILIP K. DICK How'd you like to gaze at a beer can throughout eternity? It might not be so bad. There'd be nothing... PHILIP K. DICK The tragedy in his life already existed. To love an atmospheric spirit. That was the real sorrow. Ho... PHILIP K. DICK The bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing? PHILIP K. DICK They know a million tricks, those novelists. Take Doctor Goebbels; that's how he started out, writin... PHILIP K. DICK You're an unusual person," she said.PHILIP K. DICK Everything in life is just for a while. PHILIP K. DICK The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the ... PHILIP K. DICK My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression. PHILIP K. DICK The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. ... PHILIP K. DICK We're all dreaming,” Arctor said. If the last to know he's an addict is the addict, then maybe the... PHILIP K. DICK Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. PHILIP K. DICK The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or t... PHILIP K. DICK I use this as a paradigm for our whole attitude toward life, what you did was you worked very hard, ... PHILIP K. DICK You know what I think? I think you've picked up the Nazi idea that Jews can't create. That they can ... PHILIP K. DICK The old man said, ‘You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condit... PHILIP K. DICK No one can win against kipple," he said, "except temporarily and maybe in one spot, like in my apart... PHILIP K. DICK Everything is true," he said. "Everything anybody has ever thought. PHILIP K. DICK Maybe there was once a human who looked like you, and somewhere along the line you killed him and to... PHILIP K. DICK But then I realized how unhealthy it was, sensing the absence of life, not just in this building but... PHILIP K. DICK Do you have information that there's an android in the cast? I'd be glad to help you, and if I were ... PHILIP K. DICK Upon him the contempt of three planets descended. PHILIP K. DICK Future and past blurred; what he had already experienced and what he would eventually experience ble... PHILIP K. DICK Silence. It flashed from the woodwork and the walls; it smote him with an awful, total power, as if ... PHILIP K. DICK I don't judge, not even myself. PHILIP K. DICK I love you,' Rachael said. 'If I entered a room and found a sofa covered with your hide I'd score ve... PHILIP K. DICK I'd like to see you move up to the goat class, where I think you belong. PHILIP K. DICK The painting showed a hairless, oppressed creature with a head like an inverted pear, its hands clap... PHILIP K. DICK Mors certa, vita incerta, PHILIP K. DICK Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.'PHILIP K. DICK Emigrate or Degenerate. PHILIP K. DICK At that moment, when I had the TV sound off, I was in a 382 mood; I had just dialed it. So although ... PHILIP K. DICK It's the basic condition of life to be required to violate our own identity. PHILIP K. DICK Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart fro... PHILIP K. DICK Maybe I'll go where I can see stars, he said to himself as the car gained velocity and altitude; it ... PHILIP K. DICK You have to be with other people, he thought. In order to live at all. I mean before they came here ... PHILIP K. DICK I like her; I could watch her the rest of my life. She has breasts that smile. PHILIP K. DICK You mean old books?"PHILIP K. DICK I never felt like that before. Maybe it could be depression, like you get. I can understand how you ... PHILIP K. DICK They see through the here, the now, into the vast black deep beyond, the unchanging. And that is fat... PHILIP K. DICK We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine. PHILIP K. DICK I used to condemn junkies, like they could get off the stuff if they really wanted to, and that is j... PHILIP K. DICK What was on the other side?"PHILIP K. DICK Dilemma of civilized man; body mobilized, but danger obscure. PHILIP K. DICK On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. N... PHILIP K. DICK Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Wakin... PHILIP K. DICK Sidney's never makes a mistake, he said to himself. We know that, too. What else can we depend on? PHILIP K. DICK Ubik ... Safe when taken as directed. PHILIP K. DICK Era come se avessi tremato per tutta la vita, a causa di una cronica corrente sotterranea di paura. ... PHILIP K. DICK If practicality and morality are polarized and you must choose, you must do what you think is right,... PHILIP K. DICK A human being without the proper empathy or feeling is the same as an android built so as to lack it... PHILIP K. DICK Even if all life on our planet is destroyed, there must be other life somewhere which we know nothin... PHILIP K. DICK The most dangerous kind of person... is one who is afraid of his own shadow. PHILIP K. DICK We're blind moles. Creeping through the soil, feeling with our snoots. We know nothing. I perceived ... PHILIP K. DICK They want to be the agents, not the victims, of history. They identify with God's power and believe ... PHILIP K. DICK Uniformity in the common law, consisting of broad principles like the "reasonable person" standard, ... PHILIP K. HOWARD A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what. K All the mysteries of the universe are solved within the Imagination. K. FORD K. Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer. PHILIP TREACY Hats make people feel good, and that's the point of them. 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