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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

“Je suis Ubik.
Avant que l'univers soit, je suis.
J'ai fait les soleils.
J'ai fait les mondes.
J'ai créé les êtres vivants et les lieux qu'ils habitent; je les y ai transportés, je les y ai placés.
Ils vont où je veux, ils font ce que je dis.
Je suis le mot et mon nom n'est jamais prononcé, le nom qui n'est connu de personne.
Je suis appelé Ubik, mais ce n'est pas mon nom.
Je suis.
Je serai toujours.”

Philip K. Dick livre Ubik

Ubik, 1969

“Un insecte apprend à voler, donc un autre apprend à construire une toile pour le piéger.”

Philip K. Dick livre Ubik

Ubik, 1969

“Si on veut sauver le navire, il faut parfois lancer par-dessus bord la cargaison.”

Philip K. Dick La Transmigration de Timothy Archer

La Transmigration de Timothy Archer, 1982

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

Philip K. Dick La Transmigration de Timothy Archer

La Transmigration de Timothy Archer, 1982

“Il faut bien que la sagesse, par sa nature même, soit rationnelle : elle est le stade ultime de tout ce qui se trouve inséré dans la réalité. Une relation intime, mais difficile à percevoir, existe entre ce qui est sage et ce qui est réel.”

Philip K. Dick livre SIVA

SIVA, 1981

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

Philip K. Dick livre SIVA

SIVA, 1981

“Moi, je gagne ma vie comme auteur de science-fiction. Je fais dans les récits imaginaires. Ma vie en est un.”

Philip K. Dick livre SIVA

SIVA, 1981

“Une des grandes manifestations de la miséricorde divine consiste à nous tenir perpétuellement dans le brouillard.”

Philip K. Dick livre SIVA

SIVA, 1981

Philip K. Dick: Citations en anglais

“This is why I love SF. I love to read it; I love to write it. The SF writer sees not just possibilities but wild possibilities. It's not just "What if…" It's "My God; what if…"”

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Philip K. Dick

In frenzy and hysteria.
Introduction to The Golden Man (1980)

“I, for one, bet on science as helping us. I have yet to see how it fundamentally endangers us, even with the H-bomb lurking about. Science has given us more lives than it has taken; we must remember that.”

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"Self Portrait" (1968), reprinted in The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick (1995), ed. Lawrence Sutin

“In all possible universes, Monday was the same.”

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Philip K. Dick livre Eye in the Sky

Source: Eye in the Sky (1957), Chapter 9 (p. 119)

“There’s a law,” Chuck said, “which I call Rittersdorf’s Third Law of Diminished Returns, which states that proportional to how long you hold a job you imagine that it has progressively less and less importance in the scheme of things.”

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Philip K. Dick livre Clans of the Alphane Moon

Source: Clans of the Alphane Moon (1964), Chapter 4 (p. 47)

“The church of my choice is the free, open world.”

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

Source: Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (1974), Chapter 13 (p. 124)

“No one today remembered why the war had come about or who, if anyone, had won. The dust which had contaminated most of the planet’s surface had originated in no country, and no one, even the wartime enemy, had planned on it.”

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

Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968), Chapter 2 (p. 15)

“That’s the trouble with living in a police state, he said to himself; you think—you imagine—the police are behind everything. You get paranoid and think they’re beaming information to you in your sleep, to subliminally control you. Actually the police wouldn’t do that. The police are our friends.
Or was that idea beamed to me subliminally? he wondered suddenly. “The police are our friends.””

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The hell they are!
Source: Lies, Inc. (1984), Chapter 1 (p. 6)

“It sounds like they’re saying passive life is good, he thought. But there is no such thing as passive life. That’s a contradiction.”

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Philip K. Dick livre A Scanner Darkly

Source: A Scanner Darkly (1977), Chapter 14 (p. 245)

“Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups…So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.”

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"How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later" (1978)

“You of all people," the void communicated. "Out of everyone, it is you I love the most.”

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Philip K. Dick livre SIVA

VALIS (1981)

“Odd that the brain could function on its own, without acquainting him with its purposes, its reasons. But the brain was an organ, like the spleen, heart, kidneys. And they went about their private activities. So why not the brain?”

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Philip K. Dick livre The Man Who Japed

The Man Who Japed (1956)

“This is an artifact and that was a relic. This is alive in the now, whereas that merely remained.”

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Philip K. Dick livre The Man in the High Castle

The Man in the High Castle (1962)

“Crazy people do not apply the principle of scientific parsimony… they shoot for the baroque.”

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Philip K. Dick livre SIVA

VALIS (1981)

“But what are you supposed to do in a society that’s corrupt? Are you supposed to obey corrupt laws? Is it a crime to break a law that’s a rotten law, or an oath that’s rotten?
“It’s a crime,” Cartwright admitted slowly. “But it may be the right thing to do.”
“In a society of criminals,” Shaeffer offered, “the innocent man goes to jail.”
“Who decides when the society is made up of criminals? Benteley demanded. “How do you know when your society has gone wrong? How do you know when it’s right to stop obeying the laws?”

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Philip K. Dick livre Solar Lottery

“You just know,” Rita O’Neill said fiercely.
Source: Solar Lottery (1955), Chapter 14 (pp. 156-157)

““Hasn’t all this taught you anything?” Annette asked Gabriel Baines as they waited for the simulacrum’s return and report.
“Like what?”
“That there is no perfect defense. There is no protection. Being alive means being exposed; it’s the nature of life to be hazardous—it’s the stuff of living.”

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Philip K. Dick livre Clans of the Alphane Moon

Source: Clans of the Alphane Moon (1964), Chapter 13 (p. 226)

“Probably she should not have gotten away with it for as long as she had…but sometime, he had often thought, the retribution will come: reality denied comes back to haunt.”

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

Source: Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (1974), Chapter 15 (p. 129)

“Fully absorbed in the peculiar text he had become totally oblivious to the noises and movements around him; all that existed for him now was the printed page held motionless before his intense scrutiny.”

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Source: Lies, Inc. (1984), Chapter 14 (p. 163)

“Mercer,” Rick said.
“I am your friend,” the old man said. “But you must go on as if I did not exist. Can you understand that?” He spread empty hands.
“No,” Rick said. “I can’t understand that. I need help.”
“How can I save you,” the old man said, “if I can’t save myself?” He smiled. “Don’t you see? There is no salvation.”
“Then what’s this for?” Rick demanded. “What are you for?”
“To show you,” Wilbur Mercer said, “that you aren’t alone. I am here with you and always will be. Go and do your task, even though you know it’s wrong.”
“Why?” Rick said. “Why should I do it? I’ll quit my job and emigrate.”
The old man said, “You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.”

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

“That’s all you can tell me?” Rick said.
Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968), Chapter 15 (pp. 178-179)

“Spinoza saw… that if a falling stone could reason, it would think, "I want to fall at the rate of thirty-two feet per second."”

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"The Android and the Human" (1972), reprinted in The Dark-Haired Girl (1988) and in The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick (1995), ed. Lawrence Sutin

“Each of us assumes everyone else knows what HE is doing. They all assume we know what WE are doing. We don't … Nothing is going on and nobody knows what it is. Nobody is concealing anything except the fact that he does not understand anything anymore and wishes he could go home.”

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In Pursuit of Valis: Selections from the Exegesis (1991)

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

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

Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968), Chapter 22 (p. 241)

“We should celebrate,” Rita said.
“Yes. I'm where I wanted to be.” Benteley sipped the remains of his drink. “Working for the Directorate. Sworn in to the Quizmaster. That’s what I set out for, that day. It seems like a long time ago. Well, I've finally arrived.” He gazed down at his glass and was silent.
“How do you feel?”

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Philip K. Dick livre Solar Lottery

“Not much different.”
Source: Solar Lottery (1955), Chapter 16 (p. 176)

“The hymns were unfamiliar to him, but he quickly picked up the general beat. The hymns had a redundant simplicity; the same phrases and tones appeared and reappeared. The same monotonous ideas, repeated indefinitely. The appetite of (Tetragrammaton) was insatiable, he concluded. A childish, nebulous personality that required constant praise—and in the most obvious terms. Quick to anger, (Tetragrammaton) was equally quick to sink into euphoria, was eager and ready to lap up these blatant flatteries.
A balance. A method of lulling the Deity. But what a delicate mechanism. Danger for everyone…The easily-aroused Presence that was always nearby. Always listening.”

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Philip K. Dick livre Eye in the Sky

Source: Eye in the Sky (1957), Chapter 7 (pp. 97-98)

“An EEG of a person watching TV shows that after about half an hour the brain decides that nothing is happening, and it goes into a hypnoidal twilight state, emitting alpha waves. This is because there is such little eye motion.”

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"How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later" (1978)

“I will never fully understand; that is the nature of such creatures. Or is this Inner Truth now, this that is happening to me? I will wait. I will see. Which it is. Perhaps it is both.”

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Philip K. Dick livre The Man in the High Castle

The Man in the High Castle (1962)

“Are we to assist it in gaining power in order to save our lives? Is that the paradox of our earthly situation?”

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Philip K. Dick livre The Man in the High Castle

The Man in the High Castle (1962)

“(Hawthorne Abendsen) told us about our own world. This, what's around us now. He wants us to see it for what it is. And I do, and more so each moment.”

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Philip K. Dick livre The Man in the High Castle

The Man in the High Castle (1962)

“You saw something you were not supposed to see — something few elements have been aware of, let alone witnessed.”

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Philip K. Dick livre Adjustment Team

Adjustment Team (1954)

“I did not attend the services, because it seems to me, as Pythagoras says, the body is the tomb of the soul and that by being born a person has already begun to die.”

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Philip K. Dick livre Confessions of a Crap Artist

Confessions of a Crap Artist (1959)

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