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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...Nothing is going on and nobody knows what it is. Nobody is concealing anything except the fact that he does not understand anything anymore and wishes he could go home.

  Philip K. Dick

  Home, Wish, Doe

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• I like her; I could watch her the rest of my life. She has breasts that smile.

  Philip K. Dick

  Watches, Like Her, Breasts

  Philip K. Dick (2008). “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, p.183, Ballantine Books

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• We do not have an ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no effort because he can detect the obvious.

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  Effort, World, Cognition

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.260, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. If you’re afraid you don’t commit yourself to life completely; fear makes you always, always hold something back. You shouldn’t be alone. It’s killing you; it’s undermining you. All the time, every day, you should be somewhere with people.

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  Hate, People, Killing

  "Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said". Book by Philip K. Dick, Chapter 21 (p. 171), 1974.

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• Those who refused to respond to the new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish.

  Philip K. Dick

  Statistics, Stimulus

  "Time Out of Joint".

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• Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.

  Philip K. Dick

  Terrible, Harder

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.274, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In a sense, the better you adapt to school the less your chances are of later adapting to the actual world. So I figure, the worse you adapt to school, the better you will be able to handle reality when you finally manage to get loose at last from school, if that ever happens. But I guess I have what in the military they call a 'poor attitude,' which means 'shape up or ship out.' I always elected to ship out.

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  Attitude, Military, School

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

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• I guess that's the story of life: what you most fear never happens, but what you most yearn for never happens either. This is the difference between life and fiction. I suppose it's a good trade-off. But I'm not sure.

  Philip K. Dick

  Differences, Fiction, Stories

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

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• The real origin of science fiction lay in the seventeeth-century novels of exploration in fabulous lands. Therefore Jules Verne's story of travel to the moon is not science fiction because they go by rocket but because of where they go. It would be as much science fiction if they went by rubber band.

  Philip K. Dick

  Real, Moon, Land

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• The unconscious is selective, when it learns what to listen for.

  Philip K. Dick

  Unconscious, Selective

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.208, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How'd you like to gaze at a beer can throughout eternity? It might not be so bad. There'd be nothing to fear.

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  Beer, Might, Eternity

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

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• The will to believe chases out the rational mind, whenever and wherever the two come into conflict.

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  Believe, Umpires, Two

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The Transmigration of Timothy Archer”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for the baroque.

  Philip K. Dick

  Simple, Principles, Facts

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “VALIS”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• God is dead,' Nick said. 'They found his carcass in 2019. Floating in space near Alpha.' 'They found the remains of an organism advanced several thousand times over what we are,' Charley said. 'And evidently could create habitable worlds and populate them with living organisms, derived from itself. But that doesn't prove it was God.

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  Space, Floating, World

  Philip K. Dick (2013). “Our Friends from Frolix 8”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. ... I must be scientific.

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  Children, Childish Things

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.242, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Can we consider the universe real, and if so, in what way?

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  Real, Statistics, Way

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

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• So we and our elaborately evolving computers may meet each other halfway. Someday a human being, named perhaps Fred White, may shoot a robot named Pete Something-or-other, which has come out of a General Electric factory, and to his surprise see it weep and bleed. And the dying robot may shoot back and, to its surprise, see a wisp of gray smoke arise from the electric pump that it supposed was Mr. White's beating heart. It would be rather a great moment of truth for both of them.

  Philip K. Dick

  Heart, White, Dying

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

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• It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense

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  Believe, Believe You Can, Nonsense

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, p.233, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• THE ONLY REAL FAILURE IS TO FAIL OTHERS.

  Philip K. Dick

  Real, Failure, Failing

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.

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  Alive, Want, Existentialism

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is futile to try to make the universe add up. But I guess we must go on anyhow.

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  Trying, Add, Goes On

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

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• Fish cannot carry guns.

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  Gun, Fishes

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “VALIS”, p.188, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The painting showed a hairless, oppressed creature with a head like an inverted pear, its hands clapped in horror to its ears, its mouth open in a vast, soundless scream. Twisted ripples of the creature's torment, echoes of its cry, flooded out into the air surrounding it; the man or woman, whichever it was, had become contained by its own howl. It had covered its ears against its own sound. The creature stood on a bridge and no one else was present; the creature screamed in isolation. Cut off by - or despite - its outcry.

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  Cutting, Men, Echoes

  Philip K. Dick (2008). “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, p.130, Ballantine Books

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• The wisest people are the clowns, like Harpo Marx, who would not speak. If I could have anything I want I would like God to listen to what Harpo was not saying, and understand why Harpo would not talk.

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  Wisdom, People, Want

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

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• A lot can be said for the infinite mercies of God, but the smarts of a good pharmacist, when you get down to it, is worth more.

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  Smart, Mercy Of God, Infinite

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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