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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 859e937 | Please don't continually say I'm paranoid. Why? It makes me paranoid. | mental-health paranoia | Philip K. Dick | |
| 058478d | Wake up to a hearty, lip-smacking bowlful of nutritious, nourishing Ubik toasted flakes, the adult cereal that's more crunchy, more tasty, more ummmish. Ubik breakfast cereal, the whole-bowl taste treat! | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 18fe9b1 | Office gossip annoyed him because it always proved better than the truth. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 43ac554 | Then the true name for religion,' Fat said, 'is death.' 'The secret name,' I agreed. 'You got it. Jesus died; Asklepios died - they killed Mani worse than they killef jesus, but nobody even cares; nobody even remembers. They killed the Catharist in southern France by the tens of thousands. In the Thirty Years War, hundreds of people died. Protestants and Catholics - manual slaughter. Death is the real name for it; not God, not the Savior, n.. | god human-nature humanity irrationality life religion science-fiction spirituality world | Philip K. Dick | |
| 4e91a1a | What you should do," she told Fat during one of his darker hours, "is get into studying the characteristics of the T-34." Fat asked what that was. It turned out that Sherri had read a book on Russion armor during World War Two. The T-34 tank had been the Soviet Union's salvation and thereby the salvation of all the Allied Powers- and, by extension, Horselover Fat's, since without the T-34 he would be speaking - not english or Latin or the k.. | language | Philip K. Dick | |
| 00f65e0 | Nothing could be more impolite. To say, "Is your sheep genuine?" would be a worse breach of manners." | Philip K. Dick | ||
| de5283a | What if he could see this, his own skull, yellow and eroded? Two centuries old. Would he still speak? Would he speak, if he could see it, the grinning, aged skull? What would there be for him to say, to tell the people? What message could he bring? What action would not be futile, when a man could look upon his own aged, yellowed skull? | philosophical | Philip K. Dick | |
| 2f2c57f | Instant Ubik has all the fresh flavor of just-brewed drip coffee. Your husband will say, Christ, Sally, I used to think your coffee was only so-so. But now, wow! Safe when taken as directed. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| fc54335 | I should not yield to it, he told himself once again as he walked along carrying the briefcase. Compulsion-obsession-phobia. But he could not free himself. It in my grip, I in its, he thought. | murder | Philip K. Dick | |
| 8880d59 | She'll probably want to, once I show her how; as near as I can make out, most women, even young ones like her, like to cook: it's an instinct. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 273535d | There are people among us who are biologically human but who are androids in the metaphoric sense. | personhood | Philip K. Dick | |
| 07b9fdc | You know that recent Supreme Court ruling where a husband can legally murder his wife if he can prove she wouldn't under any circumstances give him a divorce? | Philip K. Dick | ||
| a81af13 | they won't help a hurt man up from the gutter due to the obligation it imposes. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 783ce4d | After he saw God he 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. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 8f8ec03 | If you or I ever really accepted the moral responsibility for what we've done in our lifetime--we'd drop dead or go mad. Living creatures weren't made to understand what they do. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 89f8878 | This is an interval, ein Augenblick. The cosmic process is hurrying on, crushing life back into the granite and methane; the wheel turns for all life. It is all temporary. And | Philip K. Dick | ||
| fdda085 | I remember something the Buddha said after he witnessed a supposed saint walk on water: 'For a penny,' the Buddha said, 'I can board a ferry and do that.' It was more practical, even for the Buddha, to cross the water normally. The normal and the supranormal were not antagonistic realms, after all. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 21bc5a8 | Near her he became aware of the physical mechanisms which kept him alive; within him machinery, pipes and valves and gas-compressors and fan belts had to chug away at a losing task, a labor ultimately doomed. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| fb956ae | But change's always harsh on the loser. Nothing new. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| e2d19e6 | There's nothing worse than a perceptive universe if there's something weird about you. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 457ee95 | Even if all life on our planet is destroyed, there must be other life somewhere which we know nothing of. It is impossible that ours is the only world; there must be world after world unseen by us, in some region or dimension that we simply do not percieve. | universe world-war-2 | Philip K. Dick | |
| 38f61d1 | Who threw the stone at me? he asked himself. No one. But why does it bother me? I've undergone it before, during fusion. While using my empathy box, like everyone else. This isn't new. But it was. Because, he thought, I did it alone. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| ef13dd2 | Parcifal is one of those corkscrew artifact of culture in which you get the subjective sense that you've learned something from it, something valuable or even priceless; but on closer inspection you suddenly begin to scratch your head and say "Wait a minute. This makes no sense." | Philip K. Dick | ||
| f5bf448 | Don't you feel it?" he kidded her. "The historicity?" | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 8e50835 | within him an actual hatred once more manifested itself toward his electric sheep, which he had to tend, had to care about, as if it lived. The tyranny of an object, he thought. It doesn't know I exist. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 7fca0b8 | As the spring rains fall, soaking in them, on the roof, is a child's rag ball. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| cb2266a | We were great builders, but one day we decided to play a game. We did it voluntarily; were we such good builders that we could build a maze with a way out but which constantly changed so that, despite the way out, in effect there was no way out for us... | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 6dc0fc0 | That is a logic which Freud attacks, by the way, the two-proposition self-cancelling structure. Freud considered this structure a revelation of rationalization. Someone is accused of stealing a horse, to which he replies, 'I don't steal horses and anyhow you have a crummy horse.' If you ponder the reasoning in this you can see the actual thought-process behind it. The second statement does not reinforce the first. It only looks like it does.. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 09e380e | There's something in the Bible about falling sparrows,' Kevin said. 'About his eye being on them. That's what's wrong with God: he only has one eye. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 3f675c0 | But, he thought, what does it mean, insane? A legal definition. What do I mean? I feel it, see it, but what is it? He thought, It is something they do, something they are. It is their unconsciousness. Their lack of knowledge about others. Their not being aware of what they do to others, the destruction they have caused and are causing. No, he thought. That isn't it. I don't know; I sense it, I intuit it. But -- they are purposelessly cruel... | facism insanity nazis | Philip K. Dick | |
| 2af040c | Their view; it is cosmic. Not of a man here, a child there, but an abstraction: race, land. Not of honorable men but of itself, honor; the abstract is real, the actual is invisible to them. but not good men, this good man. It is their sense of space and time. They see through the here, the now, into the vast black deep beyond, the unchanging. And that is fatal to life. Because eventually there will be no life; there was once only the .. | abstraction nazism nihilism racism the-abyss | Philip K. Dick | |
| b850d34 | 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 spider, would have no use for it; in fact it would tend to abort a spider's ability to survive. It would make him conscious of the desire to live on the part .. | human predators | Philip K. Dick | |
| ced6a29 | When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it. | writing-process | Tracy Kidder | |
| a80a929 | Children get dealt grossly unequal hands, but that is all the more reason to treat them equally in school, Chris thought. "I think the cruelest form of prejudice is... if I ever said, 'Clarence is poor, so I'll expect less of him than Alice.' Maybe he won't do what Alice does. But I want his best." She knew that precept wasn't as simple as it sounded. Treating children equally often means treating them very differently. But it also means br.. | educational-inequity | Tracy Kidder | |
| 405fa8f | He sniffed, and said as others had before him and others no doubt would again, "I have learned never to say, 'Never again." | Tracy Kidder | ||
| 2e78887 | In the process Paul laid out a comprehensive theory of poverty, of a world designed by the elites of all nations to serve their own ends, the pieces of the design enshrined in ideologies, which erased the histories of how things came to be as they were. | Tracy Kidder | ||
| ec331cc | Go up along the eastern side of Lake Michigan, steer northeast when the land bends away at Point Betsie, and you come before long to Sleeping Bear Point-an incredible flat-topped sand dune rising five hundred feet above the level of the lake and going north for two miles or more. It looks out over the dark water and the islands that lie just offshore, and in the late afternoon the sunlight strikes it and the golden sand turns white, with a .. | history michigan | Bruce Catton | |
| 20fdbaa | Early youth is a baffling time. The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you. Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made. In this res.. | trains youth | Bruce Catton | |
| 362ec25 | all right we are two nations | John Dos Passos | ||
| f970c03 | Why, lies are like a sticky juice overspreading the world, a living, growing flypaper to catch and gum the wings of every human soul. . . And the little helpless buzzings of honest, liberal, kindly people, aren't they like the thin little noise flies make when they're caught? | John Dos Passos | ||
| 29956bb | What's the use of a lague of nations if it's to be dominated by Great Britain and her colonies?" said Mr. Rasmussen sourly. "But don't you think any kind of a league's better than nothing?" said Eveline. "It's not the name you give things, it's who's getting theirs underneath that counts," said Robbins. "That's a very cynical remark," said the California woman. "This isn't any time to be cynical." "This is a time," said Robbins, "when if we.. | John Dos Passos | ||
| 6c3b1a7 | lys 'khTr mn mr'@ wHyd@ | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| c927f45 | Beauty itself is a painful convulsion in the heart, an abundance of vitality in the soul, and a mad chase undertaken by the spirit until it encounters the heavens. | Naguib Mahfouz | ||
| 14e990c | Run after truth until you're breathless. Accept the pain involved in re-creating yourself afresh. These ideas will take a life to comprehend, a hard one interspersed with drunken moments. | life truth | Naguib Mahfouz |