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Philip K. Dick
American
Writer
About the author
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,
American
Writer
#People
#Consequences
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,
American
Writer
#Car
#Judgment
#Disease
#Decision
#Error
It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
Philip K. Dick,
American
Writer
#Reality
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Philip K. Dick,
American
Writer
#Reality
Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.
Philip K. Dick,
American
Writer
#Reality
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.
Philip K. Dick,
American
Writer
#Talk
#Science
#Writers
#Knowledge
#Fiction
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,
American
Writer
#Time
#Life
#Trouble
#Being
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
Philip K. Dick,
American
Writer
#Night
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,
American
Writer
#Words
#People
#Control
#Manipulation
#Reality
#Meaning