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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.”

Philip K. Dick The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

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The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982)

Life , Education , Time , Parting

“The living, he thought, should never be used to serve the purposes of the dead. But the dead—he glanced at Bruce, the empty shape beside him — should, if possible, serve the purposes of the living.
That, he reasoned, is the law of life.
And the dead, if they could feel, might feel better doing so.
The dead, Mike thought, who can still see, even if they can't understand: they are our camera.”

Philip K. Dick book A Scanner Darkly

Source: A Scanner Darkly (1977), Chapter 15 (p. 266)

Life , Law , Feeling , Understanding

“(Insanity) is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate — confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man.”

Philip K. Dick book The Man in the High Castle

The Man in the High Castle (1962)

God

“So that’s that, Barney said to himself. I violated Rule One of career-oriented functioning: never tell your superior something he doesn’t want to hear.”

Philip K. Dick book The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

Source: The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965), Chapter 4 (p. 60)

“The book business is hidebound.”

Philip K. Dick

Source: Lies, Inc. (1984), Chapter 12 (p. 131)(This and the next six quotes are referred to by the author as "Thingisms")

Books , Business

“Where there’s dope, there’s hope!”

Philip K. Dick book A Scanner Darkly

Source: A Scanner Darkly (1977), Chapter 7 (p. 118)

Hope

““How come you didn’t recognize me?” Hentman said crossly. “Aren’t I world-famous? Or maybe you don’t watch TV.””

Philip K. Dick book Clans of the Alphane Moon

Source: Clans of the Alphane Moon (1964), Chapter 5 (p. 57)

World

“Doctor Labyrinth, like most people who read a great deal and who have too much time on their hands, had become convinced that our civilization was going the way of Rome. He saw, I think, the same cracks forming that had sundered the ancient world, the world of Greece and Rome; and it was his conviction that presently our world, our society, would pass away as theirs did, and a period of darkness would follow.”

Philip K. Dick

"The Preserving Machine" (1953), The Collected Short Stories of Philip K. Dick, v.1: The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford (1987)

People , World , Way , Thinking

“Helping people was one of the two basic things Fat had been told to give up; helping people and taking dope. He had stopped taking dope, but all his energy and enthusiasm were now totally channelled into saving people. Better he had kept on with the dope.”

Philip K. Dick book VALIS

VALIS (1981)

People , Help

“The Empire Never Ended”

Philip K. Dick book VALIS

VALIS (1981)

“The pain, the cut in his scalp, so unexpected and undeserved, had for some reason cleared away the cobwebs. It flashed on him instantly that he didn’t hate the kitchen cabinet: he hated his wife, his two daughters, his whole house, the back yard with its power mower, the garage, the radiant heating system, the front yard, the fence, the whole fucking place and everyone in it.”

Philip K. Dick book A Scanner Darkly

Source: A Scanner Darkly (1977), Chapter 4 (p. 64)

Housing , Pain , Hate , Daughters

“Maybe I shouldn’t have told you—about it being electrical.”

Philip K. Dick book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

She put her hand out, touched his arm; she felt guilty, seeing the effect it had on him, the change.
”No,” Rick said. “I’m glad to know. Or rather—” He became silent. “I’d prefer to know.”
Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968), Chapter 22 (p. 241)

“How come you didn’t recognize me?”

Philip K. Dick book Clans of the Alphane Moon

Hentman said crossly. “Aren’t I world-famous? Or maybe you don’t watch TV.”
Source: Clans of the Alphane Moon (1964), Chapter 5 (p. 57)

“The Neanderthal probably thought the Cro-Magnon man had merely an improved line. A little more advanced ability to conjure up symbols and shape flint. From your description, this thing is more radical than a mere improvement.”

Philip K. Dick

"This thing," Baines said slowly, "has an ability to predict. So far, it's been able to stay alive. It's been able to cope with situations better than you or I could. How long do you think we'd stay alive in that chamber, with energy beams blazing down at us? In a sense it's got the ultimate survival ability. If it can always be accurate —"
The Golden Man (1954)

“Many of the novels read in isolation can seem like lumber-rooms of ideas, cluttered and over-complex, as if attempting too much at once. Perhaps the fault lies in market circumstances and the terse Ace format for which Dick wrote. One could also argue that Dick's novels were a quarter the length they ought to have been to contain such complexity and richness. Even so, the marvellous, multi— levelled web of themes and concerns which emerges from this process of condensation gives Dick's work its specific feel, the very thing that makes it unique. Unrevised, eccentric and extravagant — even so, it's not too much to claim that Dick is perhaps the first real genius to have worked in the science-fictional mode since the days of Stapledon, a hybrid of Dickens and Dostoevsky, possessed of the comic delights and tragic depths of both, yet choosing work where his eccentricities were cherished. In any case, like so many SF writers, he learned to love the genre through the magazines long before his literary tastes were formed. He never quite recovered from that first infatuation with the forbidden van Vogtian delights.”

Philip K. Dick

Брайан Олдисс, «Кутёж на триллион лет»

Science , Reading , Learning , Idea

“You think life is worth living, Dar?”

Philip K. Dick book The Crack in Space

Source: The Crack in Space (1966), Chapter 14 (p. 195)
Context: Hadley demanded suddenly.
“Who knows. And if you have to ask, there’s something wrong with you.”

Life , Thinking

“Obviously it’s impossible to do business with you Homo sapiens; you’re adept, polished liars.”

Philip K. Dick book The Crack in Space

Source: The Crack in Space (1966), Chapter 13 (p. 184)

Business