“The odd thing in this world is that an eager-beaver type, with no original ideas, who mimes those in authority above him right to the last twist of necktie and scrape of chin, always gets noticed. Gets selected. Rises.”

—  Philip K. Dick, book Time Out of Joint

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American author 1928–1982

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