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| 6f93419 | Whenever I am feeling blue, I like to go to the Balzar and watch a waiter gravely transfer a steak au poivre and its accompaniments from an oval platter to a plate, item by item. It reaffirms my faith in the sanity of superfluous civilization. | Adam Gopnik | ||
| 0df8cb1 | that people don't speak in theories, that the theories they employ change, flexibly, and of necessity, from moment to moment in conversation, that the notion of limiting conversation to a rigid rule of theoretical constancy is an absurd denial of what conversation is. | Adam Gopnik | ||
| 2206968 | There was a nook in the house that contained what they called the Turkish Room, which was for intimate conversation. And when my mother had her sixth birthday, her grandmother led her into the Turkish Room. They were both named Inez. And on that day Big Inez gave Little Inez a plantation all her own. Two thousand acres. Then her little sister came running in and said, "Grandmother, can I have a plantation too?" And Big Inez looked down and .. | Adam Gopnik | ||
| d96ddcf | It will end, Childan thought. Someday. The very idea of place. Not governed and governing, but people. And | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 5fc5004 | If this place were closer to Terra there'd be empty beer cans and plastic plates strewn around. The trees would be gone. There'd be old jet motors in the water. The beaches would stink to high heaven. Terran Development would have a couple of million little plastic houses set up everywhere. | short | Philip K. Dick | |
| 2d06ede | When I was a child I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. Now I must seek in other realms. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 1f1501f | Perhaps, deformed as it was, Earth remained familiar, to be clung to. Or possibly the non-emigrant imagined that the tent of dust would deplete itself finally. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 3240712 | 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. He | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 0d732b4 | His projected face bony and intense, Garth peered out of his booth like an aroused turtle. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| be7c476 | For years, the Pacific had been trying to get basic assistance in the synthetics field from the Reich. However, the big German chemical cartels, I. G. Farben in particular, had harbored their patents; had, in fact, created a world monopoly in plastics, especially in the developments of the polyesters. By this means, Reich trade had kept an edge over Pacific trade, and in technology the Reich was at least ten years ahead. The interplanetary .. | pacific patents plastics reich | Philip K. Dick | |
| d422bf3 | Are--you dying?" she asked. "Just can't breathe. This air." "Poor, poor--good lord. I've forgotten your name." "Hell of a thing." "Barney!" He clutched her. "No! Don't stop!" She arched her back. Her teeth chattered. "I wasn't going to," he said. "Oooaugh!" He laughed. "Don't please laugh at me." "Not meant unkindly." A long silence, then. Then, "Oof." | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 1a17af5 | Okay? You'll be a knockout. Listen, we'll buy a bottle of high-price Scotch and take it along. That Vat 69.' Frank, | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 4ff8f7f | Fakat zaten cokmek uzere olan bir toplumda ne yapabilirsiniz? Cokmus kanunlara mi uyarsiniz? Kotu bir kanunu saymamak suc mu? Ya da kotuluge kullanilan bir yemini bozmak suc mu? | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 25b4210 | I love you," Rachael said. "If I entered a room and found a sofa covered with your hide I'd score very high on the Voigt-Kampff test." | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 5b9f870 | The linking and relinking of objects by the Brain is actually a language, but not a language like ours (since it is addressing itself and not someone or something outside itself.) | Philip K. Dick | ||
| a0e6d79 | Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find. I'm | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 1fb15bc | Si es amor por una mujer o una imitacion androide, es sexo. Despierte y cuestioneselo, Deckard. Queria acostarse con un androide femenino, nada mas y nada menos. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 89a76aa | maintained his stance of cynicism, could not speak from grief; the two of them drove along and then Kevin slapped him on the shoulder, which is the only avenue open to men to show love for each other. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 77ef465 | he still never saw her as anything but a direct, literal invitation of God's, dropped into his life for reasons he would never know. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 9f6e798 | Does this cure your depression?" he asked her. "It cures mine." Iran said, "It certainly does cure my depression. Now we can admit to everybody that the sheep's false." "No need to do that," he said cautiously. "But we can," Iran persisted. "See, now we have nothing to hide; what we've always wanted has come true. It's a dream!" | Philip K. Dick | ||
| ed90e23 | Oh no," she said, still smiling; her eyes poured over with light, that of compassion. She understood how he felt, that this was not an impulse only. But the answer was still no, and, he knew, it would always be;" | Philip K. Dick | ||
| cc88fd9 | The universe will never be extinguished because just when the darkness seems to have smothered all, to be truly transcendent, the new seeds of light are reborn in the very depths. That is the Way. When the seed falls, it falls into the earth, into the soil. And beneath, out of sight, it comes to life. "An" | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 01f3b5d | I chose God over the material universe. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 6c80817 | But she looked--smaller. As if something in her had dwindled away, as if she had dried up. It was almost--age. Yet not quite. Could their separation have done this much damage? He doubted it. His wife, since he had seen her last, had become frail, and he did not like this; despite his animosity he felt concern. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 6f6beca | God is God of history and of nations. Also of nature. Originally Yahweh was probably a volcanic deity. But he periodically enters history, the best example being when he intervened to bring the Hebrew slaves out of Egypt and to the Promised Land. They were shepherds and accustomed to freedom; it was terrible for them to be making bricks. And the Pharaoh had them gathering the straw as well and still being required to meet their quota of bri.. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 0b94b8c | What do you want? Egg in your beer? | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 02098ae | Do you know what the true basis of political power is? Not guns or troops but the ability to get others to do what you want them to do. By whatever means are appropriate. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 7b28a3a | They know a million tricks, those novelists. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| bc45766 | Because when the death-dealing powers of ice and cold reach your loins, your breasts and hips and buttocks as well as your heart--it was already deep in her heart, surely--then there will be no more woman. And you won't survive that. No matter what I or any man chooses to do. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 7ffa43a | We cannot enter the monstrous schizophrenic morass of Nazi internecine intrigue; our minds cannot adapt. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 4112f5c | Always this barrier, this impossibility of getting through. This time he did not waste his time trying; he simply went on stroking her, thinking, It'll be on my conscience, whatever happens to her. And she knows it, too. So she's absolved of the burden of responsibility, and that, for her, is the worst thing possible. Too bad, he thought, I wasn't able to make love to her. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| e0da050 | Don't pause and be philosophical, because from a philosophical standpoint it's dreary. For us both." He" | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 6c3c406 | It's not just the drive. They're right out front. Everywhere. Waiting for me. All day and night." "Who are, dear?" "Robots selling things. As soon as I set down the ship. Robots and visual-audio ads. They dig right into a man's brain. They follow people around until they die." | short | Philip K. Dick | |
| 7aa92a7 | Smiling at her the boy said, "Games, then? Would that be better? There are events that I must shape. I must arouse fire that burns, that sears. Scripture says: For He is like a refiner's fire. And Scripture also says: And who can abide the day of His coming? I say, however, that it will be more than this; I say: The day comes, glowing like a furnace; all the arrogant and the evil-doers shall be chaff, and that day when it comes shall set th.. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| e4eba31 | He fixed things--clocks, refrigerators, vidsenders and destinies. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| db6a632 | This man is different. He can fix anything, do anything. He doesn't work with knowledge, with science--the classified accumulation of facts. He knows nothing. It's not in his head, a form of learning. He works by intuition--his power is in his hands, not his head. Jack-of-all-trades. His hands! Like a painter, an artist. In his hands--and he cuts across our lives like a knife-blade. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 9171806 | over beside Mr. Baynes, General Tedeki said in a soft voice, "You witness the man's despair. He, you see, was no doubt raised as a Buddhist. Even if not formally, the influence was there. A culture in which no life is to be taken; all lives holy." Mr. Baynes nodded. "He will recover his equilibrium," General Tedeki continued. "In time. Right now he has no standpoint by which he can view and comprehend his act. That book will help him, for i.. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 58fa1ca | Sheep are funny," the Whitlock said. "Now, you look at how they behave when you throw some grub over the fence to them, such as corn stalks. Why, they'll spot that from a mile away." The Whitlock chuckled. "They're smart when it comes to what concerns them. And maybe that helps us see what true smartness is; it isn't having read a lot of big books, or knowing long words...it's being able to spot what's to our advantage. It's got to be usefu.. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 0f9beaa | Having nothing else to do or think about, he began to work out theoretically the life cycle of the bugs, and, with the aid of the Britannica, try to determine specifically which bugs they were. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| d8696ff | I don't think anyone creates a fake universe," Herb said, "since it isn't there." "But you're saying something is causing us to see a universe that doesn't exist. Who is this someone?" He said, "Satan." Cocking his head, Elias eyed him. "It's a way of seeing the real world," Herb said. "An occluded way. A dreamlike way. A hypnotized, asleep way. The nature of world undergoes a perceptual change; actually it is the perceptions that change, n.. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| c2fe3a7 | Better a live dog than a dead prince | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 53e6b2b | to the Bleekmen, we Earthmen may very well be hypomanic types, whizzing about at enormous velocity, expending huge amounts of energy over nothing at all. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 946ff76 | We did not fall because of a moral error; we fell because of an intellectual error: that of taking the phenomenal world as real. Therefore we are morally innocent. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| f0e3280 | The Public School, then, was right to eject a child who did not learn. Because what the child was learning was not merely facts or the basis of a money-making or even useful career. It went much deeper. The child learned that certain things in the culture around him were worth preserving at any cost. His values were fused with some objective human enterprise. And so he himself became a part of the tradition handed down to him; he maintained.. | Philip K. Dick |