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  • January 31st, 2013 11:48pm

    Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die and still go on.

    — Philip K. Dick – A Scanner Darkly (via bieberssi)

  • December 21st, 2012 8:53pm


    Watched the new Total Recall again (I liked it quite a bit) and realized that I had never read the story. Changing that now!

  • December 21st, 2012 5:56pm

    He had won a stint at some kind of forced labor camp, most likely. The exit door leads in, he thought to himself. Which is to say, when they want you they already have you at the touch of a key. The H key for hell and the S key for slave, he thought.

    And the Y key for you.

    — The Exit Door Leads In by Philip K. Dick

  • November 27th, 2012 11:23am

    Too bad. And Mozart, not long after writing The Magic Flute, had died—in his thirties—of kidney disease. And had been buried in an unmarked pauper’s grave.

    Thinking this, he wondered if Mozart had any intuition that the future did not exist, that he had already used up his little time. Maybe I have too, Rick thought as he watched the rehearsal move along. This rehearsal will end, the performance will end, the singers will die, eventually the last score of the music will be destroyed in one way or another; finally the name “Mozart” will vanish, the dust will have won. If not on this planet then another. We can evade it awhile. As the andys can evade me and exist a finite stretch longer. But I will get them or some other bounty hunter gets them. In a way, he realized, I’m part of the form-destroying process of entropy.

    — Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?  -Philip K. Dick (via veloriumcamper)

  • November 27th, 2012 7:37am

    If two people dream the same dream it ceases to be an illusion; the basic test that distinguishes reality from hallucination is the consensus gentium, that one other or several others see it too.

    — Philip K. Dick (via felixquotables)

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