“I'm a strange person. Sometimes I hardly know what I'm going to do or say next. Sometimes I seem a stranger to myself. Sometimes what I do surprises me and I can't understand why I do it.”

Solar Lottery (1955)

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Philip K. Dick 278
American author 1928–1982

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