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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

“We have entered a Moment when we are alone. We cannot get assistance, as before. Well, Mr. Tagomi thought, perhaps that too is good. Or can be made good. One must still try to find the Way.”

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Philip K. Dick livre The Man in the High Castle

The Man in the High Castle (1962)

“It was evident to Elias Tate that this was the government. First they shake hands with you, he thought, and then they murder you.”

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Philip K. Dick The Divine Invasion

The Divine Invasion (1981)

““Time to get up,” he informed her. “Don’t you hear the Almighty bellowing in the living room?”
“What’s he saying?” Marsha murmured crossly.
“Nothing in particular. Repent or suffer eternal damnation. The usual tribal tub-thumping.””

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Philip K. Dick livre Eye in the Sky

Source: Eye in the Sky (1957), Chapter 8 (p. 103)

“You’re a goldmine of misinformation.”

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Source: Lies, Inc. (1984), Chapter 11 (p. 124)

“Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.”

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Philip K. Dick livre A Scanner Darkly

Source: A Scanner Darkly (1977), Chapter 14 (p. 244)

“Well, I hate to admit it, but it is possible that there is (one) such a thing as telepathy and (two) that the CETI project's idea that we might communicate with extraterrestrial beings via telepathy is possibly a reasonable idea--if telepathy exists and if ETIs exist. Otherwise we are trying to communicate with someone who doesn't exist with a system which doesn't work.”

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Philip K. Dick livre The Dark Haired Girl

The Dark Haired Girl, (1989)

“A novelist carries with him constantly what most women carry in large purses: much that is useless, a few absolutely essential items, and then, for good measure, a great number of things that fall in between. But the novelist does not transport them physically because his trove of possessions is mental. Now and then he adds a new and entirely useless idea; now and then he reluctantly cleans out the trash -- the obviously worthless ideas -- and with a few sentimental tears sheds them. Once in a great while, however, he happens by chance onto a thoroughly stunning idea new to him that he hopes will turn out to be new to everyone else. It is this final category that dignifies his existence. But such truly priceless ideas… perhaps during his entire lifetime he may, at best, acquire only a meager few. But that is enough; he has, through them, justified his existence to himself and to his God.”

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"If You Find This World Bad, You Should See Some of the Others" (1977)

“Cris didn't play fair. He had watched half an hour — then come out and thrown once. One perfect toss, one dead ringer.”

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The Golden Man (1954)

“Can anyone alter fate? All of us combined…or one great figure…or someone strategically placed, who happens to be in the right spot. Chance. Accident. And our lives, our world, hanging on it.”

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Philip K. Dick livre The Man in the High Castle

The Man in the High Castle (1962)

“Giving me a new idea is like handing a cretin a loaded gun, but I do thank you anyhow, bang, bang.”

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Letter to Patricia Warrick (17 May 1978), published in Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1977-1979 (1993)

“How can I join one of the parties? All their slogans and propaganda, it seems so damn - silly. How the hell can I get exited about clean teeth and underarm odor. People kill each other over these trifles… it doesn't make sense. There's going to be suicidal civil war, if that amendment passes, and I'm supposed to join one side or the other?”

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Philip K. Dick livre The Chromium Fence

"The Chromium Fence"
The Phillip K. Dick Reader

“You're killing yourself with cynicism. Your idols got taken away from you one by one and now you have nothing to give your love to.”

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Philip K. Dick livre The Man in the High Castle

The Man in the High Castle (1962)

“As always, when the opportunity arose, Joe took a long, astute look at the girl whom, if he could have managed it, he would have had as his mistress, or, even better, his wife. It did not seem possible that Wendy Wright had been born out of blood and internal organs like other people. In proximity to her he felt himself to be a squat, oily, sweating, uneducated nurt whose stomach rattled and whose breath wheezed. Near her he became aware of the physical mechanisms which kept him alive; within him machinery, pipes and valves and gas-compressors and fan belts had to chug away at a losing task, a labor ultimately doomed. Seeing her face, he discovered that his own consisted of a garish mask; noticing her body made him feel like a low-class windup toy. All her colors possessed a subtle quality, indirectly lit. Her eyes, those green and tumbled stones, looked impassively at everything; he had never seen fear in them, or aversion, or contempt. What she saw she accepted. Generally she seemed calm. But more than that she struck him as being durable, untroubled and cool, not subject to wear, or to fatigue, or to physical illness and decline. Probably she was twenty-five or -six, but he could not imagine her looking younger, and certainly she would never look older. She had too much control over herself and outside reality for that.”

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Philip K. Dick livre Ubik

Source: Ubik (1969), Chapter 5 (pp. 58-59)

“An Irishman hears that the banks are failing. He runs into the bank where he keeps his money and demands every cent of it. 'Yes sir,' the teller says politely. 'Do you want it in cash or in the form of a check?' The Irishman replies: 'Well, if you have it, I don't want it. But if you haven't got it, I must have it immediately.”

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Philip K. Dick livre The World Jones Made

The World Jones Made (1956)

“The time, then, had come for him to poison himself so that an economic monopoly could be kept alive, a sprawling, interplan empire from which he now derived nothing.”

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Philip K. Dick livre The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

Source: The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965), Chapter 10 (p. 161)

“This one fact alone, Rachmael reflected, should have frightened the rational citizen. But—
The people did not know. The media had not reported it.”

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Source: Lies, Inc. (1984), Chapter 6 (p. 56)

“[Fiction] Appeals to the base lusts that hide in everyone no matter how respectable on the surface.”

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Philip K. Dick livre The Man in the High Castle

The Man in the High Castle (1962)

“One thing I've found that I can do that I really enjoy is rereading my own writing, earlier stories and novels especially. It induces mental time travel, the same way certain songs you hear on the radio do … the whole thing returns, an eerie feeling that I'm sure you've experienced.”

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Introduction to The Golden Man (1980)

““Is it my fault?” Joe said. “Did I make that quarter you gave me obsolete?” He felt anger.
“In some weird way,” Al said, “yes, it is your fault. But I don’t know how. Maybe one day I’ll figure it out.””

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Philip K. Dick livre Ubik

Source: Ubik (1969), Chapter 7 (p. 91)

“This hypnagogic condition. Attention-faculty diminished so that twilight state obtains; world seen merely in symbolic, archetypal aspect, totally confused with unconscious material.”

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Philip K. Dick livre The Man in the High Castle

The Man in the High Castle (1962)

“In one of the most brilliant papers in the English language Hume made it clear that what we speak of as 'causality' is nothing more than the phenomenon of repetition. When we mix sulphur with saltpeter and charcoal we always get gunpowder. This is true of every event subsumed by a causal law — in other words, everything which can be called scientific knowledge. "It is custom which rules," Hume said, and in that one sentence undermined both science and philosophy.”

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"The Day the Gods Stopped Laughing," unpublished article written in the late 60's, quoted in To The High Castle: Philip K. Dick: A Life 1928-1962 (1989) by Gregg Rickman

“What does it mean, insane? A legal definition. What do I mean? I feel it, see it, but what is it? It is something they do, something they are. It is their unconsciousness…Do they ignore parts of reality? Yes. But it is more. It is their plans…Their view; it is cosmic…They see through the here, the now, into the vast black deep beyond, the unchanging. And that is fatal to life. Because eventually there will be no life; there was once only the dust particles of space, the hot hydrogen gases, nothing more, and it will come again.”

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Philip K. Dick livre The Man in the High Castle

The Man in the High Castle (1962)

“Explain it,” Hamilton muttered. “This place—this bar. Why doesn’t God erase it? If this world operates by moral laws—”
“This bar is necessary to the moral order. This is a sinkpit of corruption and vice, a fleshpot of iniquity. You think salvation can function without damnation? You think virtue can exist without sin? That’s the trouble with you atheists; you don’t grasp the mechanics of evil. Get on the inside and enjoy life, man. If you’re one of the Faithful, you’ve got nothing to worry about.”
“Opportunist.”

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Philip K. Dick livre Eye in the Sky

“Bet your sweet soul.”
Source: Eye in the Sky (1957), Chapter 5 (p. 66)

“People just have no criterion left to evaluate the importance of things. I think the only thing that would really affect people would be the announcement that the world was going to be blown up by the hydrogen bomb. I think that would really affect people. I think they would react to that. But outside of that, I don't think they would react to anything. "Peking has been wiped out by an earthquake, and the RTD — the bus strike is still on."”

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And some guy says, "Damnit! I'll have to walk to work!"
Quoted in Daniel DePerez, "An Interview with Philip K. Dick," http://www.philipkdickfans.com/frank/sfrinter.htm Science Fiction Review, No. 19, Vol. 5, no. 3 (August 1976)

“If you are wise, Matson said to himself grimly, you never take one-way trips. Anywhere. Even to Boise, Idaho…even across the street. Be certain, when you start, that you can scramble back.”

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Source: Lies, Inc. (1984), Chapter 3 (p. 27)

““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.””

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Philip K. Dick livre A Scanner Darkly

Source: A Scanner Darkly (1977), Chapter 4 (p. 56)

“The electric things have their life too. Paltry as those lives are.”

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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)

“What does a scanner see? he asked himself. I mean, really see? Into the head? Down into the heart? Does a passive infrared scanner like they used to use or a cube-type holo-scanner like they use these days, the latest thing, see into me—into us—clearly or darkly? I hope it does, he thought, see clearly, because I can’t any longer these days see into myself. I see only murk. Murk outside; murk inside. I hope, for everyone’s sake, the scanners do better. Because, he thought, if the scanner sees only darkly, the way I myself do, then we are cursed, cursed again and like we have been continually, and we’ll wind up dead this way, knowing very little and getting that little fragment wrong too.”

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Philip K. Dick livre A Scanner Darkly

Source: A Scanner Darkly (1977), Chapter 11 (p. 185)

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