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We hypostasize information into objects. (Philip K. Dick)
A psychologist said, "They used to talk about seeing only ‘reflections' of reality. Not reality itself. The main thing wrong with a reflection is not that it isn't real, but that it's reversed.”. View quote
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No tools. He doesn't build anything or utilize anything outside himself. He just stands and waits for the right opportunity and then he runs like hell. View quote
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SF is a rebellious art form and it needs writers and readers and bad attitudes - an attitude of "Why?" or "How come?" or "Who says?" View quote
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I am a fictionalizing philosopher, not a novelist; my novel and story-writing ability is employed as a means to formulate my perception. The core of my writing is not art but truth. View quote
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Anyhow, even if they agreed to lead us, I felt uneasy as where we would wind up going. View quote
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Van Vogt influenced me so much because he made me appreciate a mysterious chaotic quality in the universe which is not to be feared. View quote
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Can any of us fix anything? No. None of us can do that. We're specialized. View quote
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We are not aware that we are doing this, that in fact this is all we are doing. View quote
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My audience will always be limited to those people. View quote
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It would seem like the present. He has a broader present. But his present lies ahead, not back. Our present is related to the past. Only the past is certain, to us. To him, the future is certain. (Philip K. Dick)
He had reached a critical region; he was about to move through worlds of intricate complexity. View quote
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Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back. View quote
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We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine. View quote
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What profit it a man if he gain the whole world but in this enterprise lose his soul? View quote
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When do I see a photograph, when a reflection? View quote
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It takes a certain amount of courage, he thought, to face yourself and say with candor, I'm rotten. I've done evil and I will again. It was no accident; it emanated from the true, authentic me. View quote
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Freiherr Hugo Reiss made a notation on his pad. Broach subject with SS General Otto Skorzeny, or better yet Otto Ohlendorf at Amt III of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt. Didn't Ohlendorf head Einsatzgruppe D? View quote
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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. View quote
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You're not just out of your body; you're out of your mind, too. View quote
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The emotional masses of ordinary people who resented the Great Work, the bombs and bacteria and guided missiles, were coming to the surface. The were rising up - finally. Putting an end to super-logic: rationality without responsibility. (Philip K. Dick)
The highway construction truck tore up the street at forty miles an hour. View quote
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It's not religious fervor; it's just a mean, very cruel streak. View quote
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In all possible universes, Monday was the same. View quote
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There's a law,” Chuck said, "which I call Rittersdorf's Third Law of Diminished Returns, which states that proportional to how long you hold a job you imagine that it has progressively less and less importance in the scheme of things. View quote
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