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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 16cb065 | We need a person whom we can make our little god on this earth, as the old Kgatla saying had it. Whether it was a spouse, or a child, or a parent, or anybody else for that matter, there must be somebody who gives our lives purpose. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 0aa4482 | Men can be teenagers until well into their twenties. That is well known | teenagers | Alexander McCall Smith | |
| ee71850 | She had been seized with a sudden existential horror. The house had white carpets and white furniture and, most significantly, no books. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| fad17ae | Sometimes it was important simply to get out. It did not matter where you went, as long as you got out of the office, or the kitchen, or any other place where duty required you to be, and went to some place that you did not have to be. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 3652a5b | The rules of the jungle did not apply to those who wrote the rules of the jungle. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 4b703a4 | Surely it is better, thought Domenica, that forty-five should buy the book and actually read it, than should many thousands, indeed millions, buy it and put it on their shelves, like...Professor Hawking's Brief History of Time. That was a book that had been bought by millions, but had been demonstrated to have been read by only a minute proportion of those who had acquired it. For do we not all have a copy of that on our shelves, and who am.. | reading | Alexander McCall Smith | |
| 4ceb61b | You cannot make somebody love something. They must have love in their heart first. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 8a4b178 | The ordinary you, the you that has to go to work every morning, the you that has to run a household, pay bills, do all of those things--that you is somehow changed into an exciting, artistic, fully alive you. That's what Paris does. | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| 4f8e945 | This can shake you up, this business of things almost but not quite being the same. A pharmacy is not quite a drugstore; a brasserie is not quite a coffee shop; a lunch is not quite a lunch. | Adam Gopnik | ||
| 2c2e473 | She always called him Luca, in the Italian manner, and said it with that funny trans-European intonation, the accent oddly placed on the first syllable: 'Where's Loo-ka?', just like Audrey Hepburn saying, 'Take the pic-ture,' in Funny Face. | Adam Gopnik | ||
| d230e07 | True autism, Jack had decided, was in the last analysis an apathy toward public endeavor; it was a private existence carried on as if the individual person were the creator of all value, rather than merely the repository of inherited values. And Jack Bohlen, for the life of him, could not accept the Public School with its teaching machines as the sole arbiter of what was and what wasn't of value. For the values of a society were in ceaseles.. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 120cd50 | I lifted you from the tomb world just now and I will continue to lift you until you lose interest and want to quit. But you will have to stop searching for me because I will never stop searching for you.(Mercer) | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 76170bf | 36. In Summary: thoughts of the brain are experienced by us as arrangements and rearrangements - change - in a physical universe; but in fact it is really information and information-processing which we substantialize. We do not merely see its thoughts as objects, but rather as the movement, or, more precisely, the placement of objects: how they become linked to one another. But we cannot read the patterns of arrangement; we cannot extract .. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| b090b38 | The classic resignation. Mechanical, intellectual acceptance of that which a genuine organism--with two billion years of the pressure to live and evolve hagriding it--could never have reconciled itself to. "I can't stand the way you androids give up," he said savagely." | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 8443d6b | Sometimes, I guess, an over-valent idea enters the mind as a problem, or imaginary problem. This is not so rare. You are getting ready for bed, late at night, and all of a sudden the idea comes into your mind that you did not shut off your car lights. You look out the window at your car-which is parked in your driveway in plain sight-and you can see that it shows no lights. But then you think: Maybe I left the lights on and they stayed on s.. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| a26c5b3 | Frankly, you look more like a goat man to me. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 2da0e11 | Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man in his twenties, a whole additional year slipped by and had to be recorded, a continually growing sum which he could not reconcile with his self-image. He still saw himself, in his mind's eye, as youthful, and when he caught sight of himself in photographs he usually collapsed ... Somebody t.. | ageing aging life midlife-crisis old time | Philip K. Dick | |
| 01912a0 | He could see the tall, peeling yellow building at the periphery of his range of vision. But something about it struck him as strange. A shimmer, an unsteadiness, as if the building faded forward into stability and then retreated into insubstantial uncertainty. An oscillation, each phase lasting a few seconds and then blurring off into its opposite, a fairly regular variability as if an organic pulsation underlay the structure. As if, he tho.. | science-fiction ubik | Philip K. Dick | |
| 622c1ac | Despair like that, about total reality, is self-perpetuating. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 63144b9 | Perhaps this is the bottom line to mental illness: incomprehensible events occur; your life becomes a bin for hoax-like fluctuations of what used to be reality. And not only that--as if that weren't enough--but you, like Fat, ponder forever over these fluctuations in an effort to order them into a coherency, when in fact the only sense they make is the sense you impose on them, out of the necessity to restore everything into shapes and proc.. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 8087426 | if men are too blind to govern themselves, how can they be trusted to govern others? | Philip K. Dick | ||
| fe9db67 | that thing that's taken refuge there in that zinc bucket, without a wife, a career, a conapt, or money or the possibility of encountering any of these, still persists. For reasons unknown to me its stake in existence is greater than mine. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 36db08e | What we really need is a doctor, not a spear. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| ccd177a | like the rest of us he seeks an external savior. | savior seeking-salvation | Philip K. Dick | |
| 02a688f | The tyranny of an object, he thought. It doesn't know I exist. | materialism | Philip K. Dick | |
| 5bc4c43 | Am I the only one who knows? I'll bet I am; nobody else really understands Grasshopper but me - they just imagine they do. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| ea11ae0 | Someday, he thought, it'll be mandatory that we all sell the McDonald's hamburger as well as buy it; we'll sell it back and forth to each other forever from our living rooms. That way we won't even have to go outside. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| aa6e161 | Horselover Fat's nervous breakdown began the day he got the phone call from Gloria asking if he had any Nembutals. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| e97559f | People suffering nervous breakdowns often do a lot of research, to find explanations for what they are undergoing. the research, of course fails. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 9b3494e | The spider Mercer gave the chickenhead, Isidore; it probably was artificial, too. But it doesn't matter. The electric things have their lives, too. Paltry as those lives are. | value-of-life | Philip K. Dick | |
| 1792991 | We peep out, but what do we see, really? Mirror reflections of our own selves, our bloodless, feeble countenances, devoted to nothing in particular, insofar as I can fathom it. 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. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| ece29de | That man indeed lives in a zone where no multiplicity can distress him and which is nevertheless the most active workshop of universal fulfillment. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| c559e75 | I resemble that worm which crawls through dust, Lives in the dust, eats dust Until a passerby's foot crushes it. | life | Philip K. Dick | |
| 123f718 | You never see the ones who really love you and help you; you're always involved with strangers. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 8e7db77 | No one can win against kipple,' he said, 'except temporarily and maybe in one spot, like in my apartment I've sort of created a stasis between the pressure of kipple and nonkipple, for the time being. But eventually I'll die or go away, and then the kipple will again take over. It's a universal principle operating throughout the universe; the entire universe is moving toward a final state of total, absolute kipple-ization. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 5c7d9e9 | Anti-cat is one jump away from anti-Semitism. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 6b49f29 | He had wondered, as had most people at one time or another, precisely why an android bounced helplessly about when confronted by an empathy-measuring test. Empathy, evidently, existed only within the human community, whereas intelligence to some degree could be found throughout every phylum and order including the arachnida. For one thing, the empathic faculty probably required an unimpaired group instinct; a solitary organism, such as a sp.. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 32ee14e | This kind of neighborhood did not please him; he had seen it a million times, duplicated throughout the face of the earth. It had been from such as this that he had fled, early in his life, to use his sixness as a method of getting out. And now he had come back. He did not object to the people: he saw them as trapped here, the ordinaries, who through no fault of their own had to remain. They had not invented it; they did not like it; they e.. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 88cc882 | Mental illness is not funny. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 953b089 | All right," Eric agreed. "If you were me, and your wife were sick, desperately so, with no hope of recovery, would you leave her? Or would you stay with her, even if you had traveled ten years into the future and knew for an absolute certainty that the damage to her brain could never be reversed? And staying with her would mean-" "I can see what it would mean, sir," the cab broke in. "It would mean no other life for you beyond caring for he.. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 60be6fd | We came back [from Mars]," Pris said, "because nobody should have to live there. It wasn't conceived for habitation, at least not within the last billion years. It's so old. You feel it in the stones, the terrible old age. Anyhow, at first I got drugs from Roy; I lived for that new synthetic pain-killer, that silenizine. And then I met Horst Hartman, who at that time ran a stamp store, rare postage stamps; there's so much time on your hands.. | science-fiction time | Philip K. Dick | |
| 0e9b87b | zaman. belki zaman da yuvarlaktir, tipki dunya gibi. hindistana ulasmak icin batiya dogru yelken acarsin. sana gulerler ama sonunda hindistan onundedir, arkanda degil.zamanla- belki hepimiz yelken acmis, kendimizi doguda sanarak giderken, bizi bekleyen 'carmiha gerilmek' ten baska bir sey degildir. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 0f604da | Does she make the heavens fall?" "Yes, she pulls down everything." Molinari nodded. "It's a psionic talent she has... it's called being a woman." | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 5432170 | Spray a bug with a toxin and it dies; spray a man, spray his brain, and he becomes an insect that clacks and vibrates about in a closed circle forever. A reflex machine, like an ant. Repeating his last instruction. | drugs obedience social-control | Philip K. Dick |