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The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them. (Philip K. Dick)
How undisturbed, the sleep of the foolish. View quote
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I like her; I could watch her the rest of my life. She has breasts that smile. View quote
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So books are real to me, too; they link me not just with other minds but with the vision of other minds, what those minds understand and see. I see their worlds as well as I see my own. View quote
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No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it. View quote
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...we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people. View quote
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Fish cannot carry guns. View quote
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Sometimes I wish I knew how to go crazy. I forget how. View quote
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He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside. View quote
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Emigrate or Degenerate. View quote
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On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components. (Philip K. Dick)
The bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing? View quote
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If the last to know he's an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected. View quote
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The person I am now, compared with the person in the dream, has been baffled and defeated and only supposes he enjoys a full life. In the dreams, I see what a full life really consists of, and it is not what I really have. View quote
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It's easy to win. Anybody can win. View quote
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I did not tell Fat this, but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good idea to let him know. After all, if you are a Buddha you should be able to figure it out for yourself. View quote
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The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for the baroque. View quote
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In a civil war... every side is wrong. It's hopeless to try to untangle it. Everyone is a victim. View quote
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I have seen myself backward. View quote
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We do not have an ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no effort because he can detect the obvious. View quote
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Dilemma of a civilized man; body mobilized but danger obscure. (Philip K. Dick)
What a tragic realm this is, he reflected. Those down here are prisoners, and the ultimate tragedy is that they don't know it; they think they are free because they have never been free, and do not understand what it means. View quote
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The odd thing in this world is that an eager-beaver type, with no original ideas, who mimes those in authority above him right to the last twist of necktie and scrape of chin, always gets noticed. Gets selected. Rises. View quote
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Life... is only heavy and none else; there is only the one trip, all heavy. Heavy that leads to the grave. For everyone and everything. View quote
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Madness, like small fish, runs in hosts, in vast numbers of instances. View quote
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