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PHILIP K. DICK Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
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PHILIP K. DICK No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of ever...
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PHILIP K. DICK Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
PHILIP K. DICK It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
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PHILIP K. DICK When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet.
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PHILIP K. DICK Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.
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PHILIP K. DICK Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it
PHILIP K. DICK Just tell me why; why the fucking why?" To which the universe would hollowly respond, "My ways canno...
PHILIP K. DICK Christ on the crapper,
PHILIP K. DICK The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.
PHILIP K. DICK To live is to be haunted.
PHILIP K. DICK I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, no...
PHILIP K. DICK Grief reunites you with what you've lost. It's a merging; you go with the loved thing or person that...
PHILIP K. DICK The Martians are always coming.
PHILIP K. DICK Reality denied comes back to haunt.
PHILIP K. DICK Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.
PHILIP K. DICK This is a mournful discovery.
1)Those who agree with you are insane
2)Those who do not agr...
PHILIP K. DICK If this place were closer to Terra there’d be empty beer cans and plastic plates strewn around. Th...
PHILIP K. DICK It’s not just the drive. They’re right out front. Everywhere. Waiting for me. All day and night....
PHILIP K. DICK The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher PHILIP K. DICK I'm not much but I'm all I have.
PHILIP K. DICK Their view; it is cosmic. Not of a man here, a child there, but an abstraction: race, land. Volk....
PHILIP K. DICK There exists, for everyone, a sentence - a series of words - that has the power to destroy you. Anot...
PHILIP K. DICK But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic ...
PHILIP K. DICK We'll fight back, we'll fight back, we'll fight back," a man near Doctor Stockstill was chanting. St...
PHILIP K. DICK All his life he had controlled machines, bent nature and the forces of nature to man and man's needs...
PHILIP K. DICK From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematicall...
PHILIP K. DICK Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small… and you will escape the jealousy of the great.
PHILIP K. DICK In the center of an irrational universe governed by an irrational Mind stands rational man.
PHILIP K. DICK You're - psychotic. There's something wrong with you."
"I know," Benteley agreed. "I'm a ...
PHILIP K. DICK There, at her console, he dialed 594: pleased acknowledgement of husband's superior wisdom in all ma...
PHILIP K. DICK I can see Richard Wagner standing at the gates of heaven. "You have to let me in," he says. "I wrote...
PHILIP K. DICK Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane...
PHILIP K. DICK It requires the greatest kind of wisdom, she thought, to know when to apply injustice. How can justi...
PHILIP K. DICK The real origin of science fiction lay in the seventeenth-century novels of exploration in fabulous ...
PHILIP K. DICK Quite an experience to live in fear, isn’t it? That’s what it is to be a slave.
PHILIP K. DICK It is—their unconsciousness. Their lack of knowledge about others. Their not being aware of what t...
PHILIP K. DICK You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be re...
PHILIP K. DICK When I believe, I am crazy. When I don't believe, I suffer psychotic depression.
PHILIP K. DICK Once, in a cheap science fiction novel, Fat had come across a perfect description of the Black Iron ...
PHILIP K. DICK Exactly what the powers of hell feed on: the best instincts in man.
PHILIP K. DICK Matter is plastic in the face of Mind.
PHILIP K. DICK They ought to make it a binding clause that if you find God you get to keep Him.
PHILIP K. DICK Basically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to...
PHILIP K. DICK Sometimes I dream--"
"I'll put that on your gravestone.
PHILIP K. DICK The exegesis Fat labored on month after month struck me as a Pyrrhic victory if there ever was one -...
PHILIP K. DICK
P. F. STRAWSON
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PHILIP K. DICK
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PETER CARDILLO When the future hinges on the next words that are said, don't let logic interfere, believe your hear...
PHILIP ROBISON
I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought &... MATT GROENING
If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should ... SAM HARRIS
Everybody knows that the dice are loadedEverybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everyb...
LEONARD COHEN Everybody knows that if you come to Two Brothers on your birthday, you get the fishbowl.
BARRY FRIEDMAN
The problem is that literalization everything said!For example Philip Dick.........,
whe...
DEYTH BANGER
Everybody knows that the dice are loadedEverybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everyb...
LEONARD COHEN Everybody knows that engineering is male dominated.
AMANDA BAKER It would delight Van Miller if someone retires from here with their stock value being somewhere equa...
JIM WALSH Look at Philip Morris. Its stock value was depressed for a long time on litigation risks, but after ...
DAVID BRIGGS Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of t...
BIBLE Dick Van Dyke spent most of his time setting everybody else up.
DAVE FOLEY Everybody knows that there is more need than funds available.
DENNIS SCHAIN I have stated many times that one of my goals was to become K-1 champion. K-1 is, in our country Hol...
ALISTAIR OVEREEM There is one body that knows more than anybody, and that is everybody.
ALEXANDRE DE TALLEYRAND-PéRIGORD There is one body that knows more than anybody, and that is everybody
CHARLES M. DE TALLEYRAND This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they c...
PHILIP K. DICK What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy...
PHILIP K. DICK Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
PHILIP K DICK The existence of a majority logically implies a corresponding minority.
PHILIP K. DICK I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, no...
PHILIP K. DICK I am a fictionalizing philosopher, not a novelist; my novel & story-writing ability is employed as a...
PHILIP K. DICK No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of ever...
PHILIP K. DICK Certainly it constitutes bad news when the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit.
PHILIP K. DICK If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.
PHILIP K. DICK The problem with introspection is that it has no end.
PHILIP K. DICK Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and e...
PHILIP K. DICK Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
PHILIP K. DICK It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
PHILIP K. DICK It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility t...
PHILIP K. DICK but as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself ...
PHILIP K. DICK The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your lif...
PHILIP K. DICK I was twelve when I read my first sf magazine
PHILIP K. DICK Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science...
PHILIP K. DICK Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.
PHILIP K. DICK And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her prof...
PHILIP K. DICK I mean, after all; you have to consider we're only made out of dust. That's admittedly not much to g...
PHILIP K. DICK Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving c...
PHILIP K. DICK Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willin...
PHILIP K. DICK If I'd known it was harmless, I'd have killed it myself!
PHILIP K. DICK Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
PHILIP K. DICK Because her general taste appalled him, it annoyed him that he himself constituted one of her favori...
PHILIP K. DICK When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet.
PHILIP K. DICK The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the ...
PHILIP K. DICK We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by b...
PHILIP K. DICK I am basically analytical, not creative; my writing is simply a creative way of handling analysis.
PHILIP K. DICK There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it...
PHILIP K. DICK Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.
PHILIP K. DICK So we and our elaborately evolving computers may meet each other halfway. Someday a human being, nam...
PHILIP K. DICK A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for w...
PHILIP K. DICK The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. I you can control the m...
PHILIP K. DICK Retrograde time is forward time which has passed the turning point; then as it turns back it is frei...
PHILIP K. DICK I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, no...
PHILIP K. DICK Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about sci...
PHILIP K. DICK Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments...
PHILIP K. DICK Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it
PHILIP K. DICK Just tell me why; why the fucking why?" To which the universe would hollowly respond, "My ways canno...
PHILIP K. DICK Christ on the crapper,
PHILIP K. DICK The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.
PHILIP K. DICK To live is to be haunted.
PHILIP K. DICK I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, no...
PHILIP K. DICK Grief reunites you with what you've lost. It's a merging; you go with the loved thing or person that...
PHILIP K. DICK The Martians are always coming.
PHILIP K. DICK Reality denied comes back to haunt.
PHILIP K. DICK Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.
PHILIP K. DICK This is a mournful discovery.
1)Those who agree with you are insane
2)Those who do not agr...
PHILIP K. DICK If this place were closer to Terra there’d be empty beer cans and plastic plates strewn around. Th...
PHILIP K. DICK It’s not just the drive. They’re right out front. Everywhere. Waiting for me. All day and night....
PHILIP K. DICK The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher PHILIP K. DICK I'm not much but I'm all I have.
PHILIP K. DICK Their view; it is cosmic. Not of a man here, a child there, but an abstraction: race, land. Volk....
PHILIP K. DICK There exists, for everyone, a sentence - a series of words - that has the power to destroy you. Anot...
PHILIP K. DICK But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic ...
PHILIP K. DICK We'll fight back, we'll fight back, we'll fight back," a man near Doctor Stockstill was chanting. St...
PHILIP K. DICK All his life he had controlled machines, bent nature and the forces of nature to man and man's needs...
PHILIP K. DICK From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematicall...
PHILIP K. DICK Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small… and you will escape the jealousy of the great.
PHILIP K. DICK In the center of an irrational universe governed by an irrational Mind stands rational man.
PHILIP K. DICK You're - psychotic. There's something wrong with you."
"I know," Benteley agreed. "I'm a ...
PHILIP K. DICK There, at her console, he dialed 594: pleased acknowledgement of husband's superior wisdom in all ma...
PHILIP K. DICK I can see Richard Wagner standing at the gates of heaven. "You have to let me in," he says. "I wrote...
PHILIP K. DICK Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane...
PHILIP K. DICK It requires the greatest kind of wisdom, she thought, to know when to apply injustice. How can justi...
PHILIP K. DICK The real origin of science fiction lay in the seventeenth-century novels of exploration in fabulous ...
PHILIP K. DICK Quite an experience to live in fear, isn’t it? That’s what it is to be a slave.
PHILIP K. DICK It is—their unconsciousness. Their lack of knowledge about others. Their not being aware of what t...
PHILIP K. DICK You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be re...
PHILIP K. DICK When I believe, I am crazy. When I don't believe, I suffer psychotic depression.
PHILIP K. DICK Once, in a cheap science fiction novel, Fat had come across a perfect description of the Black Iron ...
PHILIP K. DICK Exactly what the powers of hell feed on: the best instincts in man.
PHILIP K. DICK Matter is plastic in the face of Mind.
PHILIP K. DICK They ought to make it a binding clause that if you find God you get to keep Him.
PHILIP K. DICK Basically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to...
PHILIP K. DICK Sometimes I dream--"
"I'll put that on your gravestone.
PHILIP K. DICK The exegesis Fat labored on month after month struck me as a Pyrrhic victory if there ever was one -...
PHILIP K. DICK
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