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• I mean, knowing people, people are terrified of the unknown and they want to just kill the unknown.

  Philip K. Dick

  Mean, Knowing, People

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• Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known this? Faced this? And-how many of us do know it? ... Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Waking up. I suppose only a few are aware of all this. Isolated persons here and there. But the broad masses-what do they think? All these hundreds of thousands in this city, here. Do they imagine that they live in a sane world? Or do they guess, glimpse, the truth...?

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  Depression, Thinking, Cities

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

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• You know what the doctor said to me to cheer me up?" Fat said. "There are worse diseases than cancer." "Did he show you slides?" We both laughed. When you are nearly crazy with grief, you laugh at what you can.

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  Cheer, Crazy, Cancer

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• "Do you have information that there's an android in the cast? I'd be glad to help you, and if I were an android would I be glad to help you?" "An android," he said, "doesn't care what happens to another android. That's one of the indications we look for." "Then," Miss Luft said, "you must be an android."

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  Missing, Looks, Care

  "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: The inspiration for the films Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049".

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• Skill is a function of chance. It’s an intuitive best-use of chance situations.

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  Skills, Use, Chance

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Solar Lottery”, p.61, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?'

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  Reality, Preoccupation, Majors

  "Dictionary of Literary Biography". Book by Gale, vol. 8, part 1, 1981.

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• You're - psychotic. There's something wrong with you." "I know," Benteley agreed. "I'm a sick man. And the more I see, the sicker I get. I'm so sick I think everybody else is sick and I'm the only healthy person. That's pretty bad off, isn't it?

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  Men, Thinking, Sick

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Solar Lottery”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But the actual touch of her lingered, inside his heart. That remained. In all the years of his life ahead, the long years without her, with never seeing her or hearing from her or knowing anything about her, if she was alive or happy or dead or what, that touch stayed locked within him, sealed in himself, and never went away. That one touch of her hand.

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  Heart, Hands, Years

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.164, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if all of us are real.

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  Real, Writing, Wonder

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• Can anyone alter fate? All of us combined... or one great figure... or someone strategically placed, who happens to be in the right spot. Chance. Accident. And our lives, our world, hanging on it.

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  Fate, Our World, Hanging On

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The hell with the newspapers. Nobody reads the letters to the editor column except the nuts. It's enough to get you down.

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  Editors, Nuts, Letters

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Confessions of a Crap Artist”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In one of the most brilliant papers in the English language Hume made it clear that what we speak of as 'causality' is nothing more than the phenomenon of repetition. When we mix sulphur with saltpeter and charcoal we always get gunpowder. This is true of every event subsumed by a causal law in other words, everything which can be called scientific knowledge. "It is custom which rules ," Hume said, and in that one sentence undermined both science and philosophy .

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  Philosophy, Law, Gunpowder

  "To The High Castle: Philip K. Dick: A Life 1928-1962". Book by Gregg Rickman, 1989.

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• She makes life over, he realized. She controls life, whereas I just sit on my can and let it happen to me.

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  Lifestyle, Happens

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Confessions of a Crap Artist”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Madness has its own dynamism. It just goes on.

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  Goes On, Madness, Dynamism

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, p.245, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sometimes I wish I knew how to go crazy. I forget how.

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  Crazy, Wish, Sometimes

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others.

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  Insanity, Inquiry, Constructs

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Martian Time-Slip”, p.219, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality ?' Many of my stories and novels deal with psychotic states or drug-induced states by which I can present the concept of a multiverse rather than a universe. Music and sociology are themes in my novels, also radical political trends; in particular I've written about fascism and my fear of it.

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  Reality, Political, Drug

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• Every time I see a picture of Stalin I look him square in the eye and I say: You're a meat eater, Joseph.

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  Eye, Squares, Meat

  Philip K. Dick (2007). “Voices From the Street”, p.67, Macmillan

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• You must beware of seeing malice behind accidental injury.

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  Injury, Malice, Behinds

  "Clans of the Alphane Moon". Book by Philip K. Dick, Ch. 11, 1964.

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• In a nutshell-I fear authority but at the same time I resent it-the authority and my own fear. So I rebel.

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  Rebel, Authority, Resent

  Philip K. Dick (2007). “Vintage PKD”, p.124, Vintage

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• I did not tell Fat this, but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good idea to let him know. After all, if you are a Buddha you should be able to figure it out for yourself.

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  Ideas, Able, Figures

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “Valis”, p.131, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And of course, in my writing, there is the constant theme of music, love of, preoccupation with, music. Music is the single thread making my life into a coherency.

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  Writing, Music Love, Preoccupation

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

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• The pain, so unexpected and undeserved, had for some reason cleared away the cobwebs. I realized I didn’t hate the cabinet door, I hated my life… My house, my family, my backyard, my power mower. Nothing would ever change; nothing new could ever be expected. It had to end, and it did. Now in the dark world where I dwell, ugly things, and surprising things, and sometimes little wondrous things, spill out in me constantly, and I can count on nothing.

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  Pain, Hate, Dark

  "A Scanner Darkly". Book by Philip K. Dick, 1977.

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• It did not seem possible that Wendy Wright had been born out of blood and internal organs like other people. In proximity to her he felt himself to be a squat, oily, sweating, uneducated nurt whose stomach rattled and whose breath wheezed. Near her he became aware of the physical mechanisms which kept him alive; within him machinery, pipes and valves and gas-compressors and fan belts had to chug away at a losing task, a labor ultimately doomed. Seeing her face, he discovered that his own consisted of a garish mask; noticing her body made him feel like a low-class wind-up toy.

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  Blood, Wind, Class

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Ubik”, p.62, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The psychotic does not merely think he sees four blue bivalves with floppy wings wandering up the wall; he does see them. An hallucination is not, strictly speaking, manufactured in the brain; it is received by the brain, like any 'real' sense datum, and the patient act in response to this to-him-very-real perception of reality in as logical a way as we do to our sense data. In any way to suppose he only 'thinks he sees it' is to misunderstand totally the experience of psychosis.

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  Wall, Real, Thinking

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

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