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Philip Kindred Dick, né le 16 décembre 1928, à Chicago dans l'Illinois, et mort le 2 mars 1982, à Santa Ana en Californie, est un auteur américain de romans, de nouvelles et d’essais de science-fiction.

De son vivant, il a reçu plusieurs prix littéraires, comme le prix Hugo pour Le Maître du Haut Château, et le prix John-Wood-Campbell Memorial pour Coulez mes larmes, dit le policier. L'auteur a passé la majorité de sa carrière dans une quasi-pauvreté. L'apport de Philip K. Dick à la science-fiction est important,,,,, et certaines de ses œuvres ont été adaptées au cinéma pour devenir des films culte : Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, Planète hurlante, A Scanner Darkly… Wikipedia  

✵ 16. décembre 1928 – 2. mars 1982
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Philip K. Dick citations célèbres

“Si on veut détruire un roi, il faut être sûr de le tuer.”

La Transmigration de Timothy Archer, 1982

“Quand on est fou, on apprend à se taire.”

SIVA, 1981

Philip K. Dick: Citations en anglais

“Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy… fear makes you always, always hold something back.”

Philip K. Dick livre SIVA

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.”

Philip K. Dick Radio Free Albemuth

Source: Radio Free Albemuth

“I like her; I could watch her the rest of my life. She has breasts that smile.”

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

Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“To live is to be hunted.”

Philip K. Dick livre Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

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

“Fish cannot carry guns.”

Philip K. Dick livre SIVA

Source: VALIS (1981)

“For each person there is a sentence — a series of words — which has the power to destroy him”

Philip K. Dick livre SIVA

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.”

Philip K. Dick livre A Scanner Darkly

“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.”

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

Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“Emigrate or Degenerate.”

Philip K. Dick livre 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.”

Philip K. Dick livre The Man in the High Castle

Source: The Man in the High Castle (1962)

“The bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing?”

Philip K. Dick livre Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

Source: Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

“When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. … I must be scientific.”

Philip K. Dick livre The Man in the High Castle

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.

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