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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.

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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We are in a maze which we built, and then we fell into, now can't get out. To make the game into something real, something more than merely an intellectual exercise, we elected to lose our exceptional faculties, to reduce us an entire level. This unfortunately, includes a loss of memory.
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It's not what happened but how it is told.
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Whom the gods notice they destroy.
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Death hides within every religion. And at any time it can flash forth-not with healing in its wings but with poison, with that which wounds.
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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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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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You know what the doctor said to me to cheer me up? Fat said. There are worse diseases than cancer. Did he show you slides? We both laughed. When you are nearly crazy with grief, you laugh at what you can.
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Madness has its own dynamism. It just goes on.
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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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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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Basically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had hatched out the practical notion that nothing is more real than a large World War Two Soviet tank.
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No man is infinitely strong for every creature that runs, flies, hops or crawls there is a terminal nemesis which he will not circumvent, which will finally do him in.
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When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion.
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But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic life without the talent.
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Skill is a function of chance. It’s an intuitive best-use of chance situations.
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Where there's dope, there's hope!
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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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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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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 started reading SF when I was about twelve and I read all I could, so any author who was writing about that time, I read. But there's no doubt who got me off originally and that was A. E. van Vogt.
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