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Philip K. Dick was an American science fiction novelist known for his unique philosophical thinking and profound futuristic imagination. His works often explore the boundaries between individuals and society, reality and illusion, and have had a profound impact on science fiction literature.

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“This is a cardboard universe, and if you lean too long or too heavily against it, you fall through.”

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Book:The Dark-Haired Girl

Source: The Dark-Haired Girl

“In the center of an irrational universe governed by an irrational Mind stands rational man.”

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Book:Valis

Source: Valis

“Even if all life on our planet is destroyed, there must be other life somewhere which we know nothing of. It is impossible that ours is the only world; there must be world after world unseen by us, in some region or dimension that we simply do not percieve.”

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Book:The Man in the High Castle

Source: The Man in the High Castle

“My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality ?' Many of my stories and novels deal with psychotic states or drug-induced states by which I can present the concept of a multiverse rather than a universe. Music and sociology are themes in my novels, also radical political trends; in particular I've written about fascism and my fear of it.”

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Author:Philip K. Dick

“The Logos was both that which thought, and the thing which it thought: thinker and thought together. The universe, then, is thinker and thought, and since we are part of it, we as humans are, in the final analysis, thoughts of and thinkers of those thoughts.”

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Book:I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

Source: I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

“You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.”

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Book:Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: The inspiration for the films Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049

Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: The inspiration for the films Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049

“Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.”

“If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.”

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Author:Philip K. Dick

“What they do not comprehend is man's helplessness. I am weak, small, of no consequence to the universe. It does not notice me; I live on unseen. But why is that bad? Isn't it that way? Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small... and you will escape the jealousy of the great.”

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Book:The Man in the High Castle

Source: The Man in the High Castle

“I am Ubik. Before the universe was, I am. I made the suns. I made the worlds. I created the lives and the places they inhabit; I move them here, I put them there. They go as I say, then do as I tell them. I am the word and my name is never spoken, the name which no one knows. I am called Ubik, but that is not my name. I am. I shall always be.”

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Book:Ubik

Source: Ubik

“In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if all of us are real.”

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Author:Philip K. Dick

“Can we consider the universe real, and if so, in what way?”

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Book:The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick: The minority report

Source: The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick: The minority report

“It is futile to try to make the universe add up. But I guess we must go on anyhow.”

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Book:Beyond Lies the Wub

Source: Beyond Lies the Wub

“I think that, like in my writing, reality is always a soap bubble, Silly Putty thing anyway. In the universe people are in, people put their hands through the walls, and it turns out they're living in another century entirely. I often have the feeling — and it does show up in my books — that this is all just a stage.”

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Author:Philip K. Dick

About the Author

Born: December 16, 1928
Died: March 2, 1982
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 370

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