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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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Philip K. Dick
Age: 53 †
Born: 1928
Born: December 16
Died: 1982
Died: March 2
Essayist
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Philosopher
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Philip Kindred Dick
Philip Dick
Richard Phillips
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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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I became educated to the fact that the greatest pain does not come zooming down from a distant planet, but from the depths of the heart. Of course, both could happen your wife and child could leave you, and you could be sitting alone in your empty house with nothing to live for, and in addition the Martians could bore through the roof and get you.
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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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