American - Writer | December 16, 1928 - March 2, 1982
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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I am one of the elect, one of the few in the know, in the gnosis.
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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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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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Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
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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?'
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Movies like 'Westworld' used ideas I'd thought of a long time ago.
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The two basic topics which fascinate me are 'What is reality?' and 'What constitutes the authentic human being?'
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I saw a segment of Douglas Trumbull's special effects for 'Blade Runner' on the KNBC-TV news. I recognized it immediately. It was my own interior world. They caught it perfectly.
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I don't write beautifully - I just write reports about our condition.
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The Martians are always coming.
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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.
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