01c. 1955 ADIf practicality and morality are polarized and you must choose, you must do what you think is right, rather than what you think is practical.Philip K. Dick / quote ↗
02c. 1955 ADHow can days and happenings and moments so good become so quickly ugly, and for no reason, for no real reason? Just - change.With nothing causing it.Philip K. Dick / quote ↗
03c. 1955 ADEmpathy, evidently, existed only within the human community, whereas intelligence to some degree could be found throughout every phylum and order including the arachnida. For one thing, the empathic faculty probably required an unimpaired group instinct; a solitary organism, such as a spider, would have no use for it; in fact it would tend to abort a spider’s ability to survive. It would make him conscious of the desire to live on the part of his prey. Hence all predators, even highly developed mammals such as cats, would starve.Philip K. Dick / quote ↗
04c. 1955 ADFat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane – not just insane but totally so – or else in an artful, professional fashion he had gotten Fat to talk; he had drawn Fat out and now knew that Fat was totally insane.Philip K. Dick / quote ↗
05c. 1955 ADHe sat watching the people go by, wondering how a thing of this sort could have come about, I must have let myself get mixed up in something horrible, he thought ... Probably she's the one who did it; I have no control of myself or anything that's happened. So now I'm waking up. I'm awake, he thought ... I've been destroyed and now that I'm awake all I can do is realize it ... The shock of getting up there and telling that account made me see. Mixture of lies and bits of truth. Woven together. Unable to see where each starts.Philip K. Dick / quote ↗
06c. 1955 ADEven if all life on our planet is destroyed, there must be other life somewhere which we know nothing of. It is impossible that ours is the only world; there must be world after world unseen by us, in some region or dimension that we simply do not percieve.Philip K. Dick / quote ↗
07c. 1955 ADYou put on a bishop's robe and miter, he pondered, and walk around in that, and people bow and genuflect and like that, and try to kiss your ring, if not your ass, and pretty soon you're a bishop. So to speak. What is identity? he asked himself. Where does the act end? Nobody knows.Philip K. Dick / quote ↗
08c. 1955 ADA person’s authentic nature is a series of shifting, variegated planes that establish themselves as he relates to different people; it is created by and appears within the framework of his interpersonal relationships.Philip K. Dick / quote ↗
09c. 1955 ADThere are people among us who are biologically human but who are androids in the metaphoric sense.Philip K. Dick / quote ↗
10c. 1955 ADExactly what the powers of hell feed on: the best instincts in man.Philip K. Dick / quote ↗
11c. 1955 ADThe gulf between their world and hers had manifested itself, however much they'd meditated on how to ball her, and remained.Philip K. Dick / quote ↗
12c. 1955 ADSomebody took my actual physical presence away and substituted thisPhilip K. Dick / quote ↗
13c. 1955 ADI am life,’ the girl said.‘What?’ he said, startled.‘To you, I am life. What are you, thirty-eight? Forty? What have you learned? Have you done anything? Look at me, look. I’m life and when you’re done with me, some of it rubs off on you. You don’t feel so old now, do you? With me here in the squib beside you.’Nick said, ‘I’m thirty-four and I don’t feel old. As a matter of fact, sitting here with you makes me feel older, not younger. Nothing is rubbing off.’‘It will,’ she said.Philip K. Dick / quote ↗
14c. 1955 ADThe existence of a majority logically implies a corresponding minority.Philip K. Dick / quote ↗
15c. 1955 ADLet me sleep," he said, and shut the door; it clicked in her face and she felt animal terror - this was what she feared most in life: the clicking shut of a man's door in her face.Instantly, she raised her hand to knock, discovered the rock... she banged on the door with the rock, but not loudly, just enough to let him know how desperate she was to get back in, but not enough to bother him if he didn't want to answer.He didn't. No sound, no movement of the door. Nothing but the void."Tony?" she gasped, pressing her ear to the door. Silence. "Okay," she said numbly; clutching her rock she walked unsteadily across the porch toward her own living quarters.The rock vanished. Her hand felt nothing."Damn," she said, not knowing how to react. Where had it gone? Into air. But then it must have been an illusion, she realized. He put me in a hypnotic state and made me believe. I should have known it wasn't really true.A million stars burst into wheels of light, blistering, cold light, that drenched her. It came from behind and she felt the great weight of it crash into her. "Tony," she said, and fell into the waiting void. She thought nothing; she felt nothing. She saw only, saw the void as it absorbed her, waiting below and beneath her as she plummeted down the many miles.On her hands and knees she died. Alone on the porch. Still clutching for what did not exist.Philip K. Dick / quote ↗
16c. 1955 ADThere will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.Philip K. Dick / quote ↗
17c. 1955 ADYet, the dark fire waned: the life force oozed out of her, as he had so often witnessed before with other androids. The classic resignation. Mechanical, intellectual acceptance of that which a genuine organism - with two billion years of the pressure to live and evolve hagriding it - could never have reconciled itself to.Philip K. Dick / quote ↗
18c. 1955 ADAll his life he had controlled machines, bent nature and the forces of nature to man and man's needs. The human race had slowly evolved until it was in a position to operate things, run them as it saw fit. Now all at once it had been plunged back down the ladder again, prostrate before a Power against which they were children.Philip K. Dick / quote ↗
19c. 1955 ADThere exists, for everyone, a sentence - a series of words - that has the power to destroy you. Another sentence exists, another series of words, that could heal you. If you're lucky you will get the second, but you can be certain of getting the first.Philip K. Dick / quote ↗
20c. 1955 ADI'm sorry, she thought. But she said nothing. I can't save you or anybody else from being dark. She thought of Frank. I wonder if he's dead yet. Said the wrong things; spoke out of line. No, she thought. Somehow he likes Japs. Maybe he identifies with them because they're ugly. She had always told Frank that he was ugly. Large pores. Big nose. Her own skin was finely knit, unusually so. Did he fall dead without me? A fink is a finch, a form of bird. And they say birds die.Philip K. Dick / quote ↗
21c. 1955 ADI lifted you from the tomb world just now and I will continue to lift you until you lose interest and want to quit. But you will have to stop searching for me because I will never stop searching for you.(Mercer)Philip K. Dick / quote ↗
23c. 1955 ADAmazed, Fat said, "She's decomposing and yet she's still giving birth?""Only to monsters," Dr. Stone said.Philip K. Dick / quote ↗
24c. 1955 ADWe human beings are created and yet we are more rational than the creator himself who spawned us.Philip K. Dick / quote ↗
