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Skill is a function of chance. It’s an intuitive best-use of chance situations.
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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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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I guess that's the story of life: what you most fear never happens, but what you most yearn for never happens either. This is the difference between life and fiction. I suppose it's a good trade-off. But I'm not sure.
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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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In a civil war… every side is wrong. It’s hopeless to try to untangle it. Everyone is a victim.
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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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Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
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The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razor’s edge, sharper than a hound’s tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is more elusive than the merest phantom. Perhaps it does not even exist perhaps it is a phantom.
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She makes life over, he realized. She controls life, whereas I just sit on my can and let it happen to me.
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A man is an angel that has gone deranged.
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Human has always striven to retain the past, to keep it convincing there's nothing wicked in that. Without it we have no continuity we have only the moment. And, deprived of the past, the moment - the present - has little meaning, if any.
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Activity does not necessarily mean life.
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It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
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A child of today can detect a lie quicker than the wisest adult of two decades ago. When I want to know what is true, I ask my children.
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How can justice fall victim, ever, to what is right?
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I never liked the idea of doing what a machine says. I hate having to salute something built in a factory.
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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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God is dead,' Nick said. 'They found his carcass in 2019. Floating in space near Alpha.' 'They found the remains of an organism advanced several thousand times over what we are,' Charley said. 'And evidently could create habitable worlds and populate them with living organisms, derived from itself. But that doesn't prove it was God.
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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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The silence of the world could not rein back it's greed. Not any longer. Not when it had virtually won.
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I think that, like in my writing, reality is always a soap bubble, Silly Putty thing anyway. In the universe people are in, people put their hands through the walls, and it turns out they're living in another century entirely. I often have the feeling — and it does show up in my books — that this is all just a stage.
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