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Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982) was an American writer known for his influential work in science fiction. His work explored philosophical, social, and political themes, with stories dominated by monopolistic corporations, alternative universes, authoritarian governments, and altered states of consciousness. His writing also reflected his interest in metaphysics and theology, and often drew upon his life experiences in addressing the nature of reality, identity, drug abuse, schizophrenia, and transcendental experiences.

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There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.

Alive, Inspirational, Life, Maze, Moving, Route

THE ONLY REAL FAILURE IS TO FAIL OTHERS.

Fail, Failing, Failure, Real

The wisest people are the clowns, like Harpo Marx, who would not speak. If I could have anything I want I would like God to listen to what Harpo was not saying, and understand why Harpo would not talk.

God, Marx, People, Understand, Want, Wisdom

Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of reality singular, or shouldn't we really be talking about plural realities? And if there are plural realities, are some more true (more real) than others?

Humans, Lives, Person, Real, Talking, Unique

Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought. ' 'Will you be all right?' 'I'll be all right,' he said, and thought, And I'm going to die. Both those are true, too.

Die, Dies, Right, Said, Thought, True

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

Depression, Good Night, Insomnia, Matters, Night, Solve

One thing I've found that I can do that I really enjoy is rereading my own writing, earlier stories and novels especially. It induces mental time travel, the same way certain songs you hear on the radio do. . . the whole thing returns, an eerie feeling that I'm sure you've experienced.

Song, Writing, Eerie, Certain, Hear

The church of my choice is the free, open world.

Choices, Church, Free, Open, World

The silence of the world could not rein back it's greed. Not any longer. Not when it had virtually won.

Back, Greed, Longer, Rein, Silence, World

The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razor’s edge, sharper than a hound’s tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is more elusive than the merest phantom. Perhaps it does not even exist; perhaps it is a phantom.

Deer, Distinction, Insanity, Narrower, Phantoms, Razors

You must beware of seeing malice behind accidental injury.

Behinds, Beware, Injury, Malice, Seeing

Little kids are that way; they feel if their parents aren't watching what they do then what they do isn't real.

Kids, Parent, Real, Way

The person I am now, compared with the person in the dream, has been baffled and defeated and only supposes he enjoys a full life. In the dreams, I see what a full life really consists of, and it is not what I really have.

Baffled, Compared, Defeated, Dream, See

All responsible writers, to some degree, have become involuntary criers of doom, because doom is in the wind

Degree, Degrees, Responsible, Wind, Writers

She makes life over, he realized. She controls life, whereas I just sit on my can and let it happen to me.

Happen, Happens, Let, Lifestyle, Realized, Sit

The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change. . . and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught that everything changes. If you superimpose their two views, you get this result: Nothing is real.

Change, Everything, Real, Result, Two, Views

Either I've invented a whole new logic or, ahem, I'm not playing with a full deck.

Deck, Invented, Logic, Statistics

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.

Car, Drug, Errors, Like, Misuse, Moving

In a civil war… every side is wrong. It’s hopeless to try to untangle it. Everyone is a victim.

Civil, Sides, Trying, Untangle, War, Wrong

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

Insane, Inspirational, Life, Reality, Response

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