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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| abc244c | I had a lot of fears that the universe would discover just how different I was from it. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| b786018 | Pat said, "I'm living with Joe. I'm his mistress. Under our arrangement I pay his bills. I paid his front door, this morning, to let him out. Without me he'd still be in his conapt." | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 959d8a4 | Plastics. Polyesters. Resins. Ersatz--industrial uses. Do you see? No consumers' commodities. | plastics | Philip K. Dick | |
| 3eb386b | Caroline said, "She's terribly, terribly disruptive." "So is reality," Hawthorne said." | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 280898b | You know what I think? I think you've picked up the Nazi idea that Jews can't create. That they can only imitate and sell. Middlemen.' He fixed his merciless scrutiny on Frink. 'Maybe so,' Frink said. | imitate | Philip K. Dick | |
| e80dbad | The ignorance of the dark-skinned strata, despite the government's ceaseless educational campaigns. No wonder their women were often preg. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| eb1f3eb | You cook the native foods to perfection, Robert Childan thought. What they say is true: your powers of imitation are immense. Apple pie, Coca-Cola, stroll after the movie, Glenn Miller...you could paste together out of tin and rice paper a completely artificial America. Rice-paper Mom in the kitchen, rice-paper Dad reading the newspaper. Rice-paper put at his feet. Everything. | rice-paper | Philip K. Dick | |
| d4d06ee | Worse still, he had failed to pass the minimum mental faculties test, which made him in popular parlance a chickenhead. Upon him the contempt of three planets descended. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| ade805f | And yet now and then he let himself steal a glance at her. Lovely dark colors of her skin, hair, and eyes. We are half-baked compared to them. Allowed out of the kiln before we were fully done. The old aboriginal myth; the truth, there. | humility women | Philip K. Dick | |
| e63987c | There were shoppers everywhere. Counter after counter. Salesgirls, mostly white, with a sprinkling of Japanese as department managers. The din was terrific. After some confusion Mr. Baynes located the men's clothing department. He stopped at the racks of men's trousers and began to inspect them. Presently a clerk, a young white, came over, greeting him. Mr. Baynes said, 'I have returned for a pair of dark brown wool slacks which I was looki.. | salesgirls | Philip K. Dick | |
| f00343a | Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Waking up. I | Philip K. Dick | ||
| e04c5e1 | She's so -- well, maybe she is a witch. I mean, maybe that's what witches were ... old women with strange talents. Like her -- being able to pass through time. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| c39ae68 | I'm sorry, she thought. But she said nothing. I can't save you or anybody else from being dark. She thought of Frank. I wonder if he's dead yet. Said the wrong things; spoke out of line. No, she thought. Somehow he likes Japs. Maybe he identifies with them because they're ugly. She had always told Frank that he was ugly. Large pores. Big nose. Her own skin was finely knit, unusually so. Did he fall dead without me? A fink is a finch, a form.. | fink japs nose pores ugly | Philip K. Dick | |
| 1648646 | He thought, too, about his need for a real animal; 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. Like the androids, it had no ability to appreciate the existence of another. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| f471392 | And there in the next room by the sofa sat a familiar suitcase, that of his psychiatrist Dr. Smile. Barefoot, he padded into the living room, and seated himself by the suitcase; he opened it, clicked switches, and turned on Dr. Smile. Meters began to register and the mechanism hummed. "Where am I?" Barney asked it. "And how far am I from New York?" That was the main point..." | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 0faedff | Law of economy: nothing is waste. Even the unreal. What a sublimity in the process. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| e8b23fc | Fat had witnessed a benign power which had invaded this world. No other term fitted it: the benign power, whatever it was, had invaded this world, like a champion ready to do battle. That terrified him but it also excited his joy because he understood what it meant. Help had come. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| c39b240 | Emptiness. He saw no one, only a large chamber with pewlike rows of seats and, at the far end, a casket surrounded by flowers. Off in a small sideroom an old-fashioned reed pump organ and a few wooden folding chairs. The mortuary smelled of dust and flowers, a sweet, stale mixture that repelled him. Think of all the Iowans, the thought, who've embraced eternity in this listless room. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 5529c45 | It is therapeutic to meet these people who have intimidated you. And to discover what they are really like. Then the intimidation goes. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| b6982e1 | We are all insects," he said to Miss Ephreikian. "Groping toward something terrible or divine. Do you not agree?" | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 7191ad9 | It was on the order of coin or stamp collecting; no rational explanation could ever be given. And high prices were being paid by wealthy collectors. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 2361e48 | I've always told people that for each person there is a sentence--a series of words--which has the power to destroy him. When Fat told me about Leon Stone I realized (this came years after the first realization) that another sentence exists, another series of words, which will heal the person. If you're lucky you will get the second; but you can be certain of getting the first: that is the way it works. On their own, without training, indiv.. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| d91cb62 | Simple Shepherd Mortuary | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 720e27e | Non turbare la tua pace interiore, niente e giusto o sbagliato, non si vince ne si perde. Esistono solo gli individui e ognuno di essi e solo. Completamente solo! Impara a essere solo, guarda gli uccelli, volano ma non parlano a nessuno del loro volo ne si preoccupano di conservarne il ricordo per raccontarlo in futuro. ... Lascia che la tua vita rimanga un segreto perche e segreta | Philip K. Dick | ||
| a3b4b78 | the universe consisted of misery and hostility and would get you in the end. He looked at the universe the way most people regard an unpaid bill; eventually they will force payment. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 3732778 | K'deto i da otidesh - zagovori starets't, - ot teb vinagi shche iskat da tvorish zlo. Tak'v e osnovniiat printsip na zhivota - nasilieto spriamo sobstvenata lichnost. Vsiako zhivo s'shchestvo v niakoi moment ot zhivota si se izpravia pred tozi izbor.Tova e neizbezhnata sianka, fatalnata klopka na s'tvorenieto, prokliatieto, koeto se khrani ot vsichko zhivo v'v vselenata. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| dc702b9 | Fat had phoned his pharmacy somewhere along the line to get a refill on his Librium prescription; he had taken thirty Librium just before taking the digitalis. The pharmacist had contacted the paramedics. A lot can be said for the infinite mercies of God, but the smarts of a good pharmacist, when you get down to it, is worth more. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 6cb9cb0 | It is proper that technically qualified non-lunatics should sit in judgement on lunatics. How could things be otherwise? | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 1e2c048 | I'm sorry," Leon said. "I can see you loved your two friends and you miss them, and maybe they're flying around somewhere in the sky, zipping here and there and being spirits and happy. But you and I and three billion other people are not, and until it changes here it won't be enough, Phil; not enough. Despite the supreme heavenly father. He has to do something for us here, and that's the truth. If you believe in the truth--well, Phil, that.. | religion truth valis | Philip K. Dick | |
| 73dd0c5 | Were his mind not fried he probably would have thought about how lucky he was to be alive - not in the philosophical sense of lucky but in the statistical sense. Nobody survives forty-nine tabs of high grade pure digitalis. As a general rule, twice the prescribed dose of digitalis will off you. Fat's prescribed dose had been fixed at q.i.d.: four a day. He had swallowed 12.25 times his prescribed daily dose and survived. The infinite mercie.. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 2ef0393 | I did it again, Robert Childan informed himself. Impossible to avoid the topic. Because it's everywhere, in a book I happen to pick up or a record collection, in these bone napkin rings -- loot piled up by the conquerors. Pillage from my people. Face facts. I'm trying to pretend that the Japanese and I are alike. But observe: even when I burst out as to my gratification that they won the war, that my nation is lost -- there's still no commo.. | cultural-appropriation | Philip K. Dick | |
| 05717a6 | Yes, the novelist knows humanity, how worthless they are, ruled by their testicles, swayed by cowardice, selling out every cause because of their greed--all he's got to do is thump on the drum, and there's his response. And he laughing, of course, behind his hand at the effect he gets. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 08533b2 | That goat," Rachael said. "You love the goat more than me. More than you love your wife, probably. First the goat, then your wife, then last of all--" She laughed merrily. "What can you do but laugh?" | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 223c063 | They - note the 'they' - paid Dr Stone to figure out what had destroyed the patient entering the ward. In each case a bullet had been fired at him, somewhere, at some time, in his life. The bullet entered him and the pain began to spread out. Insidiously, the pain filled him up until he split in half, right down the middle. The task of the staff, and even of the other patients, was to put the person back together but this could not be done .. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| d2e1eb7 | The Nazis have no sense of humor, so why should they want television? Anyhow, they killed most of the really great comedians. Because most of them were Jewish. In fact, she realized, they killed off most of the entertainment field. I wonder how Hope gets away with what he says. Of course, he has to broadcast from Canada. And it's a little freer up there. But Hope really says things. Like the joke about Goring . . . the one where Goring buys.. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| e96e6f7 | So we must presume that the worst, rather than the best, choice will be made. The sober and responsible elements will be defeated in the present clash. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| e5cd888 | Strano come un delirio persecutorio riesca di tanto in tanto a incontrare, per quanto brevemente, la realta. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| c877f19 | terms of those who loved her. She paid back their love with--well, with what? Malice? Not proven. Hate? Not proven. With the irrational? Yes; proven. In terms of the effect on her friends--such as Fat--no lucid purpose was served but purpose there was: purpose without purpose, if you can conceive of that. Her motive was no motive. We're talking about nihilism. Under everything else, even under death itself | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 6e723aa | Loyce gazed up, rigid with horror. The splotch of darkness, hanging over the City Hall. Darkness so thick it seemed almost solid. In the vortex something moved. Flickering shapes. Things, descending from the sky, pausing momentarily above the City Hall, fluttering over it in a dense swarm and then dropping silently onto the roof. Shapes. Fluttering shapes from the sky. From the crack of darkness that hung above him. He was seeing--them. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| c1b45d7 | You know the old brownshirt term for people who spin philosophy? Eierkopf. Egghead. Because the big double-domed empty heads break so easily . . . in the street brawls. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| b57d204 | It's like asking, what's an impostor look like?" Arctor said. "I talked one time to a big hash dealer who'd been busted with ten pounds of hash in his possession. I asked him what the nark who busted him looked like. You know, the -- what do they call them? -- buying agent that came out and posed as a friend of a friend and got him to sell him some hash." "Looked," Barris said, winding string, "just like us." "More so," Arctor said. "The ha.. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 0dbdf4d | First, strangely, the owls had died. At the time it had seemed almost funny, the fat, fluffy white birds lying here and there, in yards and on streets; coming out no earlier than twilight as they had while alive the owls escaped notice. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 9a454d8 | Worse still, he had failed to pass the minimum mental faculties test, which made him in popular parlance a chickenhead. | Philip K. Dick | ||
| 68e2e02 | He feels that most high-placed Nazis are refusing to face facts vis-a-vis their economic plight. By doing so, they accelerate the tendency toward greater adventures, less predictability, less stability in general. The cycle of manic enthusiasm, then fear, then Partei solutions of a desperate type--well, the point he got across was that all this tends to bring the most irresponsible and reckless aspirants to the top." Mr. Tagomi nodded. "S.. | fascism megalomania totalitarianism | Philip K. Dick |