The Novel of the Future (1969)
“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
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A Scanner Darkly
Source: A Scanner Darkly (1977), Chapter 14 (p. 245)
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