Philip K. Dick Quotes - Page 6

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• That is the artist's job: take mineral rock from dark silent earth, transform it into shining light-reflecting form from sky.

  Philip K. Dick

  Jobs, Dark, Artist

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

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• He started keeping a journal - had been, in fact, secretly doing so for some time: the furtive act of a deranged person.

  Philip K. Dick

  Facts, Deranged, Persons

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

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• People have told me that everything about me, every facet of my life, psyche, experiences, dreams, and fears, are laid out explicitly in my writing, that from the corpus of my work I can be absolutely and precisely inferred. This is true.

  Philip K. Dick

  Dream, Writing, People

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

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• Human has always striven to retain the past, to keep it convincing; there's nothing wicked in that. Without it we have no continuity; we have only the moment. And, deprived of the past, the moment - the present - has little meaning, if any.

  Philip K. Dick

  Past, Wicked, Littles

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “Now Wait for Last Year”, p.29, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In Washington and Moscow they are saying, 'Man has finally come of age; he doesn't need paternalistic help.' Which is another way of saying, 'We have abolished that help, and in its place we will rule,' offering no help at all: taking but not giving, ruling but not obeying, telling but not listening, taking life and not giving it. The slayers govern now, without interference; the dreams of mankind have become empty.

  Philip K. Dick

  Dream, Men, Offering

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• If the last to know he’s an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected.

  Philip K. Dick

  Mean, Men, Addiction

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In a civil war… every side is wrong. It’s hopeless to try to untangle it. Everyone is a victim.

  Philip K. Dick

  War, Trying, Sides

  Philip K. Dick (1979). “Time Out of Joint”

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• How can justice fall victim, ever, to what is right?

  Philip K. Dick

  Fall, Justice, Victim

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• If I'd known it was harmless, I'd have killed it myself!

  Philip K. Dick

  Known, Ifs, Pointlessness

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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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• Emigrate or Degenerate.

  Philip K. Dick

  Degenerates

  Philip K. Dick (2008). “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, p.8, Ballantine Books

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• I will never fully understand; that is the nature of such creatures. Or is this Inner Truth now, this that is happening to me? I will wait. I will see. Which it is. Perhaps it is both.

  Philip K. Dick

  Waiting, Creatures, Happenings

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.254, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Should we have a leader or should we think for ourselves? Obviously the latter in principle. But-sometimes there lies a gulf between what is theoretically right and that which is practical.

  Philip K. Dick

  Lying, Thinking, Leader

  "The Last of the Masters". Book by Philip K. Dick, p. 337, 1954.

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• Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.' 'Will you be all right?' 'I'll be all right,' he said, and thought, And I'm going to die. Both those are true, too.

  Philip K. Dick

  Said, Dies

  Philip K. Dick (2008). “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, p.227, Ballantine Books

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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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• Death hides within every religion. And at any time it can flash forth-not with healing in its wings but with poison, with that which wounds.

  Philip K. Dick

  Healing, Wings, Poison

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “VALIS”, p.195, 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?

  Philip K. Dick

  Order, Gaining Power, Life Is

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

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• Odd that the brain could function on its own, without acquainting him with its purposes, its reasons. But the brain was an organ, like the spleen, heart, kidneys. And they went about their private activities. So why not the brain?

  Philip K. Dick

  Heart, Brain, Purpose

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man Who Japed”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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. Okay, so I should revise my standards; I'm out of step. I should yield to reality. I have never yielded to reality. That's what SF is all about. If you wish to yield to reality, go read Philip Roth; read the New York literary establishment mainstream bestselling writers

  Philip K. Dick

  New York, Writing, Reality

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

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• When he turned on the tape-transport once more, Arctor was saying, "-- as near as I can figure out, God is dead." Luckman answered, "I didn't know He was sick.

  Philip K. Dick

  Sick, Tape, Figures

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.209, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I mean, after all, you have to consider we're only made out of dust. That's admittedly not much to go on and we shouldn't forget that. But even considering, I mean it's sort of a bad beginning, we're not doing too bad. So I personally have faith that even in this lousy situation we're faced with we can make it. You get me?

  Philip K. Dick

  Mean, Dust, Goes On

  1966 The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, closing words.

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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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• In a one-party system there is always a landslide.

  Philip K. Dick

  Party, Landslides

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• I must admit that the existence of Disneyland (which I know is real) proves that we are not living in Judaea in 50 AD. . . . Saint Paul would never go near Disneyland. Only children, tourists, and visiting Soviet high officials ever go to Disneyland. Saints do not.

  Philip K. Dick

  Children, Real, Tourists

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

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• I, for one, bet on science as helping us. I have yet to see how it fundamentally endangers us, even with the H-bomb lurking about. Science has given us more lives than it has taken; we must
  remember that.

  Philip K. Dick

  Taken, Bombs, Helping

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

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