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Philip K Dick Inspirational Quotes (119)

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There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.
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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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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
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Madness has its own dynamism. It just goes on.
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The church of my choice is the free, open world.
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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.
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God can be good and terrible-not in succession-but at the same time. This is why we seek a mediator between us and him we approach him through the mediating priest and attenuate and enclose him through the sacraments. It is for our own safety: to trap him within confines which render him safe.
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If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.
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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
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The odd thing in this world is that an eager-beaver type, with no original ideas, who mimes those in authority above him right to the last twist of necktie and scrape of chin, always gets noticed. Gets selected. Rises.
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Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back.
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Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.
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I like her I could watch her the rest of my life. She has breasts that smile.
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Everything is true Everything anybody has ever thought
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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.
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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?
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I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much richer and more meaningful.
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Men and the world are mutually toxic to each other.
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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.
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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.
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To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement.... Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire it proliferates like a virus.
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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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Sometimes I wish I knew how to go crazy. I forget how.
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Reality is just a point of view.
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