Philip K. Dick citations (286 citations, Page 10)

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?”

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Philip K. Dick livre 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.”

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"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.”

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Брайан Олдисс, «Кутёж на триллион лет»

“God is either powerless, stupid or he doesn't give a shit.”

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Philip K. Dick livre SIVA

VALIS (1981)

“You think life is worth living, Dar?”

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Philip K. Dick livre The Crack in Space

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

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

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Philip K. Dick livre The Crack in Space

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