Philip K. Dick citations célèbres
“Si on veut sauver le navire, il faut parfois lancer par-dessus bord la cargaison.”
La Transmigration de Timothy Archer, 1982
“Si on veut détruire un roi, il faut être sûr de le tuer.”
La Transmigration de Timothy Archer, 1982
Philip K. Dick: Citations en anglais
Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Source: Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (1974), Chapter 21 (p. 171)
Source: VALIS
Contexte: "Fear,” Jason said, “can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. If you're afraid you don’t commit yourself to life completely; fear makes you always, always hold something back.”'
“How undisturbed, the sleep of the foolish.”
Source: Radio Free Albemuth
“I like her; I could watch her the rest of my life. She has breasts that smile.”
Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Variante: To live is to be hunted.
Source: Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (1974), Chapter 27 (p. 213)
Source: Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
“…we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.”
Source: Counter-Clock World
Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
“For each person there is a sentence — a series of words — which has the power to destroy him”
VALIS (1981)
Contexte: For each person there is a sentence — a series of words — which has the power to destroy him … another sentence exists, another series of words, which will heal the person. If you're lucky you will get the second; but you can be certain of getting the first: that is the way it works. On their own, without training, individuals know how to deal out the lethal sentence, but training is required to deal out the second.
“Sometimes I wish I knew how to go crazy. I forget how.”
“It’s a lost art,” Hank said. “Maybe there’s an instruction manual on it.”
Source: A Scanner Darkly (1977), Chapter 4 (p. 56)
“It's the basic condition of life to be required to violate our own identity.”
Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
“Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane.”
Source: The Man in the High Castle (1962)
“The bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing?”
Source: Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
"How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later" (1978)
Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Source: The Man in the High Castle (1962)
Contexte: When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things.... I must be scientific.