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Movies like 'Westworld' used ideas I'd thought of a long time ago.
- Philip K. Dick
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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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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.
- Philip K. Dick
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If you can get them to see the world as you do, they will think as you do.
- Philip K. Dick
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I used to dig in the garden, and there isn't anything fantastic or ultradimensional about crab grass... unless you are a SF writer, in which case, pretty soon you're viewing crabgrass with suspicion. What are its real motives? And who sent it in the first place? The question I always found myself asking was, 'What is it, really?'
- Philip K. Dick
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I am basically analytical, not creative; my writing is simply a creative way of handling analysis.
- Philip K. Dick
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I am one of the elect, one of the few in the know, in the gnosis.
- Philip K. Dick
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The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or time.
- Philip K. Dick
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When I believe, I am crazy. When I don't believe, I suffer psychotic depression.
- Philip K. Dick
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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.
- Philip K. Dick
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Comprehension follows perception.
- Philip K. Dick
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Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.
- Philip K. Dick
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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.
- 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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We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in reality occurs. We have the overwhelming impression that we were reliving the present - deja vu.
- Philip K. Dick
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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
- Philip K. Dick
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Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
- 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.
- Philip K. Dick
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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.
- Philip K. Dick
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