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• The silence of the world could not rein back it's greed. Not any longer. Not when it had virtually won.

  Philip K. Dick

  Silence, Greed, World

  Philip K. Dick (2008). “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, p.20, Ballantine Books

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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.

  Philip K. Dick

  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.

  Philip K. Dick

  Wall, Real, Thinking

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

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• One thing I've found that I can do that I really enjoy is rereading my own writing, earlier stories and novels especially. It induces mental time travel, the same way certain songs you hear on the radio do ... the whole thing returns, an eerie feeling that I'm sure you've experienced.

  Philip K. Dick

  Song, Writing, Eerie

  "The Golden Man". Book by Philip K. Dick, 1980.

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• The Logos was both that which thought, and the thing which it thought: thinker and thought together. The universe, then, is thinker and thought, and since we are part of it, we as humans are, in the final analysis, thoughts of and thinkers of those thoughts.

  Philip K. Dick

  Together, Finals, Analysis

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

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• Don't never participate in no bad scenes, he reminded himself; that was his motto in life.

  Philip K. Dick

  Motto, Scene

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• They wanted to have a good time, but they were like children playing in the street; they could see one after another of them being killed--run over, maimed, destroyed--but they continued to play anyhow.

  Philip K. Dick

  Running, Children, Play

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.287, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Life in Anaheim, California, was a commercial for itself, endlessly replayed. Nothing changed; it just spread out farther and farther in the form of neon ooze. What there was always more of had been congealed into permanence long ago, as if the automatic factory that cranked out these objects had jammed in the on position.

  Philip K. Dick

  Long Ago, California, Neon

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.29, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Life ... is only heavy and none else; there is only the one trip, all heavy. Heavy that leads to the grave. For everyone and everything.

  Philip K. Dick

  Life, Life Is, Graves

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

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• You have to be with other people, he thought. In order to live at all. I mean before they came here I could stand it... But now it has changed. You can't go back, he thought. You can't go from people to nonpeople." - J.R. Isidore

  Philip K. Dick

  Mean, Order, People

  Philip K. Dick (2008). “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, p.204, Ballantine Books

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• Maybe I'll go where I can see stars, he said to himself as the car gained velocity and altitude; it headed away from San Francisco, toward the uninhabited desolation to the north. To the place where no living thing would go. Not unless it felt that the end had come.

  Philip K. Dick

  Stars, San Francisco, Car

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

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• Little kids are that way; they feel if their parents aren't watching what they do then what they do isn't real.

  Philip K. Dick

  Real, Kids, Parent

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.141, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What they do not comprehend is man's helplessness. I am weak, small, of no consequence to the universe. It does not notice me; I live on unseen. But why is that bad? Isn't it that way? Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small... and you will escape the jealousy of the great.

  Philip K. Dick

  Men, Unseen, Doe

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

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• I never felt like that before. Maybe it could be depression, like you get. I can understand how you suffer now when you're depressed; I always thought you liked it and I thought you could have snapped yourself out any time, if not alone then my means of the mood organ. But when you get that depressed you don't care. Apathy, because you've lose a sense of worth. It doesn't matter whether you feel better because you have no worth.

  Philip K. Dick

  Mean, Feel Better, Suffering

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• Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work.

  Philip K. Dick

  Lonely, Writing, Way

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

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• Barefoot conducts his seminars on his houseboat in Sausalito. It costs a hundred dollars to find out why we are on this Earth. You also get a sandwich, but I wasn't hungry that day. John Lennon had just been killed and I think I know why we are on this Earth; it's to find out that what you love the most will be taken away from you, probably due to an error in high places rather than by design.

  Philip K. Dick

  Taken, Thinking, Errors

  Philip K. Dick (2015). “Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.13, Melville House

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• but as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself at one point, with no notion of how it could be, a step from an almost certain fatal cliffside fall—falling humiliatingly and helplessly, he thought; on and on, with no one even to witness it. Here there existed no one to record his or anyone else's degradation, and any courage or pride which might manifest itself here at the end would go unmarked: the dead stones, the dust-stricken weeds dry and dying, perceived nothing, recollected nothing, about him or themselves.

  Philip K. Dick

  Weed, Fall, Pride

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• The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.

  Philip K. Dick

  Regret, Trying, Cry

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You know how people are about not taking care of an animal; they consider it immoral and antiempathic. I mean, technically it's not a crime like it was right after WWT but the feeling's still there.

  Philip K. Dick

  Mean, Animal, People

  Philip K. Dick (2008). “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, p.13, Ballantine Books

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• I love you,' Rachael said. 'If I entered a room and found a sofa covered with your hide I'd score very high on the Voigt-Kampff test.

  Philip K. Dick

  Love You, Tests, Rooms

  Philip K. Dick (1996). “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, Random House LLC

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• We should take mothers in high seas and drown them there, they are as poisonous as lead in the air.

  Philip K. Dick

  Mother, Air, Sea

  "Dark Haired Girl". Book by Philip K. Dick, 1989.

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• In this dark world where he now dwelt, ugly things and surprising things and once in a long while a tiny wondrous thing spilled out at him constantly; he could count on nothing.

  Philip K. Dick

  Dark, Ugly Things, Long

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What is possible and what is not possible is not objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the author and of the reader.

  Philip K. Dick

  Statistics, Belief, Reader

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

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• The frogs hopping indoors agree that we are on a prison planet. They themselves are frog criminals that were convicted of doing frog crimes.

  Philip K. Dick

  Frogs, Criminals, Prison

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• Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything.

  Philip K. Dick

  Sorry, Writing, Fiction

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

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