Quotes from Philip K. Dick

tunelessly through closed teeth. I had a true wife but I left her ... oh, oh, oh. The jeep skidded to a halt

Ogni singolo uomo vede soltanto una porzione della verità complessiva; e molto spesso, in realtà quasi sempre, egli deliberatamente, si inganna anche su questo piccolo frammento. Una parte di se stesso gli si rivolta contro e prende ad agire come se fosse un'altra persona, distruggendolo dall'interno. Un uomo all'interno di un uomo. Il che vuol dire nessun uomo del tutto

Und wenn Sie einmal gewesen sind, werden Sie für immer existieren.

How the land became plastic, he thought, remembering the fairy tale "How the Sea Became Salt." Someday, he thought, it'll be mandatory that we all sell the McDonald's hamburger as well as buy it; we'll sell it back and forth to each other forever from our living rooms. That way we won't even have to go outside.

Shock, and loss of blood.

Outside, a bug on tall legs picked through the heaps. It ate, and then something squashed it and went on, leaving it squashed with its dead teeth sunk into what it had wanted to eat. Finally its dead teeth got up and crawled out of its mouth in different directions.

I once saw a ballgame.

Jason Dill held the pencil beam steadily.

She was a redhead and he liked redheads; they were either outrageously ugly or almost supernaturally attractive

Okay, he said to himself. Here goes.

You have to be with other people...in order to live at all.

The real danger, the ultimate horror, happens when the creating and protecting, the sheltering, comes first—and then the destruction. Because if this is the sequence, everything built up ends in death.

Nella tua mente c'è qualcosa che nessun altro ha. Ma non si tratta di precognizione. Di cosa allora? Hai senso dell'umorismo fu la risposta di Gretchen.

There she was, stable and as if forever; then -- nothing. Vanished like fire or air, an element of the earth back into the earth. To mix with the everyone-else people that never ceased to be. Poured out among them. The evaporated girl, he thought. Of transformation. That comes and goes as she will. And no one, nothing, can hold her.

Okay, I can do it; I'll fix dinner for both of us. And I'll show her how so she can do it in the future if she wants. She'll probably want to, once I show her how; as near as I can make out, most women, even young ones like her, like to cook: it's an instinct.

A country is no better than its leader.

In an enigmatic tone Kevin said, 'What about going to the movies tomorrow night?

drive the wild Bleekmen from their last

Já salvei muitas vidas — Joan ergueu a mão— Você pode me dar um cigarro? Ele lhe ofereceu um, acendendo-o, sentindo-se, como sempre, culpado pelo esquecimento. — O que você faz? — inquiriu Joan. Relutante, não porque fosse confidencial, mas sim porque o trabalho conferia um status inferior na escala da consideração pública, descreveu sua função na CIA. Joan Trieste ouviu com atenção.

This is George Robertson," I said. "Mortimer Snead told me there'd be somebody there to talk to me. Maybe Lefty." "Snead?" the cartoon

You shouldn't be frightened so easily. Or life is going to be too much for you.

The past is latent, is submerged, but still there, capable of rising to the surface once the later imprinting unfortunately - and against ordinary experience - vanished. The man contains - not the boy - but earlier men, he thought. History began a long time ago.

He was interested in only one thing: turning out the best job he could, with the skill he possessed.

Even if one person finds a way, it means there is a way.