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• Each of us assumes everyone else knows what he is doing. They all assume we know what we are doing. We don't.

  Philip K. Dick

  Assuming, Knows

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

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• So books are real to me, too; they link me not just with other minds but with the vision of other minds, what those minds understand and see. I see their worlds as well as I see my own.

  Philip K. Dick

  Real, Book, Mind

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The Transmigration of Timothy Archer”, p.141, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Unless we can psychologically accommodate change, we ourselves begin to die, inwardly. What I am saying is that objects, customs, habits, and ways of life must perish so that the authentic human being can live. And it is the authentic human being who matters most, the viable, elastic organism which can bounce back, absorb, and deal with the new.

  Philip K. Dick

  Matter, Way, Habit

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• My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression.

  Philip K. Dick

  Self, Schedules, Today

  Philip K. Dick (2008). “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, p.4, Ballantine Books

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• The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught that everything changes. If you superimpose their two views, you get this result: Nothing is real.

  Philip K. Dick

  Real, Views, Two

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

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• The problem with introspection is that it has no end.

  Philip K. Dick

  Meditation, Problem, Ends

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The Transmigration of Timothy Archer”, p.187, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.

  Philip K. Dick

  Science, Shadow, Identity

  Philip K. Dick (2008). “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: The inspiration for the films Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049”, p.179, Ballantine Books

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• …we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.

  Philip K. Dick

  Lying, Self, People

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Counter-Clock World”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.

  Philip K. Dick

  Reality, Links, Strange

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

  Philip K. Dick

  Depression, Good Night, Insomnia

  Philip K. Dick (1990). “The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick: The minority report”

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• It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.

  Philip K. Dick

  Tragedy, Possibility, Midst

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• Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost ... perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that little precious fragment as well.

  Philip K. Dick

  Truth, Men, Littles

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.193, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small... and you will escape the jealousy of the great.

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

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• This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.

  Philip K. Dick

  Discovery, Insane, Paranoia

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

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• To live is to be haunted.

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• You're killing yourself with cynicism. Your idols got taken away from you one by one and now you have nothing to give your love to.

  Philip K. Dick

  Taken, Idols, Giving

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet.

  Philip K. Dick

  Crazy, Quiet

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “Valis”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Grief causes you to leave yourself. You step outside your narrow little pelt. And you can’t feel grief unless you’ve had love before it - grief is the final outcome of love, because it’s love lost. […] It’s the cycle of love completed: to love, to lose, to feel grief, to leave, and then to love again. Grief is the awareness that you will have to be alone, and there is nothing beyond that because being alone is the ultimate final destiny of each individual living creature. That’s what death is, the great loneliness.

  Philip K. Dick

  Lost Love, Loneliness, Grief

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• Activity does not necessarily mean life.

  Philip K. Dick

  Life, Mean, Doe

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.253, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world, a world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans.

  Philip K. Dick

  Unique, Solitude, Different

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

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• There is evil! It's actual, like cement. I can't believe it. I can't stand it. Evil is not a view ... it's an ingredient in us. In the world. Poured over us, filtering into our bodies, minds, hearts, into the pavement itself.

  Philip K. Dick

  Believe, Heart, Views

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.

  Philip K. Dick

  Mean, Doe, Monk

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.253, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die and still go on. Sometimes what looks out at you from a person's eyes maybe died back in childhood.

  Philip K. Dick

  Eye, Knowing, Childhood

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.252, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis,' or, put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking hours.

  Philip K. Dick

  Dream, Psychosis, Way

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “Valis”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Either I've invented a whole new logic or, ahem, I'm not playing with a full deck.

  Philip K. Dick

  Statistics, Logic, Deck

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