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Clans of the Alphane Moon

Clans of the Alphane Moon
Philip K. Dick

Clans of the Alphane Moon is a 1964 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. It is based on his 1954 short story "Shell Game", first published in Galaxy Science Fiction magazine.

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“There’s a law,” Chuck said, “which I call Rittersdorf’s Third Law of Diminished Returns, which states that proportional to how long you hold a job you imagine that it has progressively less and less importance in the scheme of things.”

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Source: Clans of the Alphane Moon (1964), Chapter 4 (p. 47)

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““Hasn’t all this taught you anything?” Annette asked Gabriel Baines as they waited for the simulacrum’s return and report.
“Like what?”
“That there is no perfect defense. There is no protection. Being alive means being exposed; it’s the nature of life to be hazardous—it’s the stuff of living.”

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Source: Clans of the Alphane Moon (1964), Chapter 13 (p. 226)

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“Hands in his pockets he began to walk aimlessly down the sidewalk runnel. And, each minute, feeling more and more scared and desperate. Everything was falling apart around him. And he seemed helpless to halt the collapse; he could only witness it, completely impotent, snatched up and gripped by processes too powerful for him to understand.”

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Source: Clans of the Alphane Moon (1964), Chapter 9 (p. 139)

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“You must beware of seeing malice behind accidental injury.”

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Source: Clans of the Alphane Moon (1964), Chapter 11 (p. 196)

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“But frankly—may I so speak?—your CIA people’s theory strikes me as a miserable bundle of random suspicions, a few separate facts strung together by an intricate structure of ad hoc theorizing, in which everyone is credited with enormous powers for intrigue. A much simpler view can be entertained with more common sense, and as a CIA employee you must be aware that, like all intelligence agencies, it lacks the faculty of common sense.”

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Source: Clans of the Alphane Moon (1964), Chapter 8, (p. 123)

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“Here, the enemy was not merely another group of human beings with a differing political persuasion; the enemy here was death.”

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Source: Clans of the Alphane Moon (1964), Chapter 5 (pp. 69-70)

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““How come you didn’t recognize me?” Hentman said crossly. “Aren’t I world-famous? Or maybe you don’t watch TV.””

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Source: Clans of the Alphane Moon (1964), Chapter 5 (p. 57)

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“How come you didn’t recognize me?”

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Hentman said crossly. “Aren’t I world-famous? Or maybe you don’t watch TV.”
Source: Clans of the Alphane Moon (1964), Chapter 5 (p. 57)

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