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After he saw God [Tony Amsterdam] felt really good, for around a year. And then he felt really bad. Worse than he ever had before in his life. Because one day it came over him, he began to realize, that he was never going to see God again; he was going to live out his whole remaining life, decades, maybe fifty years, and see nothing but what he had always seen. What we see. He was worse off than if he hadn't seen God. He told me one day he ..
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Philip K. Dick |
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54008c8
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Many men talk like philosophers and live like fools.
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philosophers
talk
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Philip K. Dick |
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8094645
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Can anyone alter fate? All of us combined... or one great figure... or someone strategically placed, who happens to be in the right spot. Chance. Accident. And our lives, our world, hanging on it.
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Philip K. Dick |
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2b12267
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Love isn't just wanting another person the way you want to own an object you see in a store. That's just desire. You want to have it around, take it home and set it up somewhere in the apartment like a lamp.
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science-fiction
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Philip K. Dick |
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bffdbad
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The odd thing in this world is that an eager-beaver type, with no original ideas, who mimes those in authority above him right to the last twist of necktie and scrape of chin, always gets noticed. Gets selected. Rises.
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Philip K. Dick |
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b0245b3
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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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Philip K. Dick |
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11a4ce5
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What a tragic realm this is, he reflected. Those down here are prisoners, and the ultimate tragedy is that they don't know it; they think they are free because they have never been free, and do not understand what it means.
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reality
philosophy
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Philip K. Dick |
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3a00770
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In a one-party system there is always a landslide.
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Philip K. Dick |
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6429648
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Once a guy stood all day shaking bugs from his hair.
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Philip K. Dick |
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e38f9f3
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I mean, knowing people, people are terrified of the unknown and they want to just kill the unknown.
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Philip K. Dick |
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f7b0b23
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He started keeping a journal - had been, in fact, secretly doing so for some time: the furtive act of a deranged person.
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furtive
journal
insane
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Philip K. Dick |
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9f5f230
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What was on the other side?" Donna said, "He said there was another world on the other side. He could see it." "He... never went through it?" "That's why he kicked the shit out of everything in his apartment; he never thought of going through it, he just admired the doorway and then later he couldn't see it at all and it was too late. It opened for him a few days and then it was closed and gone forever."
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opportunities
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Philip K. Dick |
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72f337d
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You learn to get by from day to day," Sam Regan said sympathetically to him. "You never think in longer terms. Just until dinner or until time for bed; very finite intervals and tasks and pleasures. Escapes."
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Philip K. Dick |
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d89cb28
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Metabolism, he reflected, is a burning process, an active furnace. When it ceases to function, life is over. They must be wrong about hell, he said to himself. Hell is cold; everything there is cold. The body means weight and heat; now weight is a force which I am succumbing to, and heat, my heat, is slipping away. And, unless I become reborn, it will never return. This is the destiny of the universe. So at least I won't be alone.
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Philip K. Dick |
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d9c7752
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In this particular lifestyle the motto is "Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying," but the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory."
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Philip K. Dick |
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6b625fe
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Upon him the contempt of three planets descended.
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Philip K. Dick |
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ae24e6c
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The past is latent, is submerged, but still there, capable of rising to the surface once the later imprinting unfortunately--and against ordinary experience--vanished. The man contains--not the boy--but earlier men, he thought. History began a long time ago.
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Philip K. Dick |
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28fddf7
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Do you have information that there's an android in the cast? I'd be glad to help you, and if I were an android would I be glad to help you?" "An android," he said, "doesn't care what happens to another android. That's one of the indications we look for." "Then," Miss Luft said, "you must be an android."
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Philip K. Dick |
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9e1d9dd
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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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world
sickness
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Philip K. Dick |
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1352c58
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We're all dreaming," Arctor said. If the last to know he's an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected. He wondered how much of the garbage that Donna had overheard he had seriously meant. He wondered how much of the insanity of the day--his insanity--had been real, or just induced as a contact lunacy, by the situation. Donna, always, was a pivot point of reality for hi..
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reality
dreams
dreaming
insanity
drugs
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Philip K. Dick |
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c918f5e
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Death is very close, he thought. When you think in this manner. I can feel it, he decided. How near I am. Nothing is killing me; I have no enemy, no antagonist; I am merely expiring, like a magazine subscription: month by month.
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Philip K. Dick |
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c2718fb
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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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Philip K. Dick |
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f118c57
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Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane - not just insane but totally so - or else in an artful, professional fashion he had gotten Fat to talk; he had drawn Fat out and now knew that Fat was totally insane.
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sanity
psychiatrist
insanity
mental-health
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Philip K. Dick |
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0626043
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The household was pervaded by this atmosphere of a calm adult woman and a man who gave into animal impulses. She reported to him in great detail what her analyst ... said about his binges and his hostility; she used Charley's money to pay Dr. Andrews to catalog his abnormalities. And of course Charley never heard anything directly from the doctor; he had no way of keeping her from reporting what served her and holding back what did not. The..
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misrepresentation
lifestyle
manipulation
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Philip K. Dick |
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4339a7f
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Masochism is more widespread than we realize because it takes an attenuated form. The basic dynamism is as follows: a human being sees something bad which is coming as inevitable. There is no way he can halt the process; he is helpess. This sense of helplessness generates a need to gain some control over the impending pain -- any kind of control will do. This makes sense; the subjective feeling of helplessness is more painful than the impen..
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science-fiction
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Philip K. Dick |
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ed46b61
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But we cannot do it all at once; it is a sequence. An unfolding process. We can only control the end by making a choice at each step.
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Philip K. Dick |
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899d16d
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It goes on, he thought. The internecine hate. Perhaps the seeds are there, in that. They will eat one another at last, and leave the rest of us here and there in the world, still alive. Still enough of us once more to build and hope and make a few simple plans.
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Philip K. Dick |
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0158b8a
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We really do see astigmatically, in fundamental sense: our space and time creations of our own psyche and when these momentarily falter - like acute disturbance of middle ear. Occasionally we list eccentrically, all sense of balance gone.
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Philip K. Dick |
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0ef6219
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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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Philip K. Dick |
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35c6bed
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Everything is true," he said. "Everything anybody has ever thought." --
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Philip K. Dick |
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8fa7549
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An android," he said, "doesn't care what happens to another android. That's one of the indications we look for." "Then," Miss Luft said, "you must be an android."
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empathy
identity-crisis
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Philip K. Dick |
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be9fcf2
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We're blind moles. Creeping through the soil, feeling with our snoots. We know nothing. I perceived this . . . now I don't know where to go. Screech with fear, only. Run away.
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Philip K. Dick |
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7aa8c3b
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Maybe there was once a human who looked like you, and somewhere along the line you killed him and took his place. And your superiors don't know.
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Philip K. Dick |
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633ef29
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Because her general taste appalled him, it annoyed him that he himself constituted one of her favorites. It was an anomaly which he had never been able to take apart.
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pkd
flow
taste
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Philip K. Dick |
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e11bdb0
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Every junkie, he thought, is a recording.
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Philip K. Dick |
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6b24971
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How can days and happenings and moments so good become so quickly ugly, and for no reason, for no real reason? Just - change. With nothing causing it.
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memories
nostalgia
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Philip K. Dick |
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990fd96
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The door refused to open. It said, "Five cents, please."
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Philip K. Dick |
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eedcaf1
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Io sono vivo, voi siete morti
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Philip K. Dick |
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ed27cbb
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If practicality and morality are polarized and you must choose, you must do what you think is right, rather than what you think is practical.
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morality
i-ching
expediency
taoism
right-and-wrong
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Philip K. Dick |
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570d606
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We'll fight back, we'll fight back, we'll fight back," a man near Doctor Stockstill was chanting. Stockstill looked at him in astonishment, wondering who he would fight back against. Things were falling on them; did the man intend to fall back upward into the sky in some sort of revenge?"
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atom-bomb
anti-war
sci-fi
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Philip K. Dick |
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f7fb69c
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Love is another name for sex.
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Philip K. Dick |
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977b548
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In his article, Bogen concluded: "I believe [with Wigan] that each of us has two minds in one person. There is a host of detail to be marshaled in this case. But we must eventually confront directly the principal resistance to the Wigan view: that is, the subjective feeling possessed by each of us that we are One. This inner conviction of Oneness is a most cherished opinion of Western Man. . . ."
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mind
subjective
oneness
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Philip K. Dick |
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3eb40db
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Send that," he told her. "Sign it, et cetera. Work the sentences, if you wish, so that they will mean something." As she started from the office he added, "Or so that they mean nothing. Whichever you prefer."
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Philip K. Dick |
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e3885b7
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Cancer... the process of creation gone wild, I thought.
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creation
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Philip K. Dick |