American - Writer | December 16, 1928 - March 2, 1982
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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Reality, by itself, becomes a story by 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.
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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
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If you can get them to see the world as you do, they will think as you do.
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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.
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Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.
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Comprehension follows perception.
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It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
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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 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.
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When I believe, I am crazy. When I don't believe, I suffer psychotic depression.
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