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You mean old books? Stories written before space travel but about space travel. How could there have been stories about space travel before -- The writers, Pris said, made it up.

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Philip K. Dick
Age: 53 †
Born: 1928
Born: December 16
Died: 1982
Died: March 2
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Emigrate or Degenerate.
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You're killing yourself with cynicism. Your idols got taken away from you one by one and now you have nothing to give your love to.
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…we all lie to ourselves we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.
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I must admit that the existence of Disneyland (which I know is real) proves that we are not living in Judaea in 50 AD. . . . Saint Paul would never go near Disneyland. Only children, tourists, and visiting Soviet high officials ever go to Disneyland. Saints do not.
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I'm tired and I want to rest I want to get out of this and go lie down somewhere, off where it's dark and no one speaks. Forever.
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It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
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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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