Philip K. Dick Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Philip K. Dick:
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
~Philip K. Dick
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Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.
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The core of my writing is not art but truth.
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We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, 'What is real?' Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms.
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I am basically analytical, not creative; my writing is simply a creative way of handling analysis.
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The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or time.
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The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.
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Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.
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I am one of the elect, one of the few in the know, in the gnosis.
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I dreamed: I am the fish whose flesh is eaten, and because I am fat, it is good.
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When I believe, I am crazy. When I don't believe, I suffer psychotic depression.
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I am a fictionalizing philosopher, not a novelist.
~Philip K. Dick
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It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
~Philip K. Dick
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I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards.
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This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.
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Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
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The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.
~Philip K. Dick
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Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.
~Philip K. Dick
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The Martians are always coming.
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