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The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.
Philip K. Dick
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Philip K. Dick
Age: 53 †
Born: 1928
Born: December 16
Died: 1982
Died: March 2
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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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My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression.
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This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.
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Once a guy stood all day shaking bugs from his hair.
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My life and creative work are justified and completed by Blade Runner.
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Unless we can psychologically accommodate change, we ourselves begin to die, inwardly. What I am saying is that objects, customs, habits, and ways of life must perish so that the authentic human being can live. And it is the authentic human being who matters most, the viable, elastic organism which can bounce back, absorb, and deal with the new.
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