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Philip K. Dick
American
Writer
Born:
Dec 16
,
1928
Died:
Mar 2
,
1982
Am
Me
People
Reality
Writing
You
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We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. 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.
Philip K. Dick
People
Writing
Political
Big
Live
Society
Corporations
Religious
Sophisticated
Because
Real
Big Corporations
Governments
Very
Which
Realities
Ask
Electronic
Using
Groups
Mechanisms
Media
Bombarded
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.
Philip K. Dick
You
Reality
Communication
People
Words
Control
Tool
Must
Manipulation
Meaning
Meaning Of
Use
Who
Basic
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Philip K. Dick
You
Reality
Go Away
Go
Stop
Which
Away
Believing
We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in reality occurs. We have the overwhelming impression that we were reliving the present - deja vu.
Philip K. Dick
Reality
Overwhelming
Living
Changed
Deja
Deja Vu
Some
Variable
Reliving
Only
Alteration
Occurs
Were
Impression
Clue
Present
This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.
Philip K. Dick
Me
People
Consequences
Heroic
Tyrant
Say
Take
Calmly
Ultimately
Trait
Ordinary
Ordinary People
They Say
Resistance
Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.
Philip K. Dick
Strange
Reality
Paranoia
How
Link
Up
Then
Now
Now And Then
I am basically analytical, not creative; my writing is simply a creative way of handling analysis.
Philip K. Dick
Creative
Writing
Analysis
Analytical
Way
Simply
Am
Handling
Basically
It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
Philip K. Dick
Reality
Sometimes
Appropriate
Insane
Response
Go
The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or time.
Philip K. Dick
Time
Space
Three
Universe
Stationary
Three-Dimensional
Information
I am a fictionalizing philosopher, not a novelist.
Philip K. Dick
Philosopher
Am
Novelist
I am one of the elect, one of the few in the know, in the gnosis.
Philip K. Dick
Few
Know
Am
Elect
In 1955, when I'd write a science-fiction novel, I'd set it in the year 2000. I realised around 1977 that, 'My God, it's getting exactly like those novels we used to write in the 1950s!' Everything's just turning out to be real.
Philip K. Dick
God
Year
Everything
Those
Out
Exactly
Be Real
Write
Like
Around
Real
Getting
Just
Realised
Turning
Used
Novel
Novels
Set
The two basic topics which fascinate me are 'What is reality?' and 'What constitutes the authentic human being?'
Philip K. Dick
Me
Reality
Human Being
Topics
Authentic
Human
Being
Which
Fascinate
Basic
Two
I dreamed: I am the fish whose flesh is eaten, and because I am fat, it is good.
Philip K. Dick
Good
Dreamed
Eaten
Because
Am
Fish
Flesh
Whose
Fat
If you can get them to see the world as you do, they will think as you do.
Philip K. Dick
You
World
Will
Think
See
Get
Them
I saw a segment of Douglas Trumbull's special effects for 'Blade Runner' on the KNBC-TV news. I recognized it immediately. It was my own interior world. They caught it perfectly.
Philip K. Dick
News
Interior
World
Own
Saw
Immediately
Recognized
Runner
Blade
Blade Runner
My Own
Segment
Perfectly
Caught
Effects
Douglas
Special
Special Effects
I don't write beautifully - I just write reports about our condition.
Philip K. Dick
Our
About
Write
Beautifully
Condition
Reports
Just
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