“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.”

—  Philip K. Dick

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

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