Philip K. Dick Quotes

"Kipple is useless objects, like junk mail or match folders after you use the last match or gum wrappers or yesterday's homeopape. When nobody's around, kipple reproduces itself. For instance, when you wake up the next morning there's twice as much of it. It always gets more and more." ~ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick "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." ~ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick Owning and maintaining a fraud had a way of gradually demoralizing one. ~ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick Empathy, evidently, existed only within the human community, whereas intelligence to some degree could be found throughout every phylum and order including the arachnida. ~ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick A dry wind rustled, and around him the heaps of bones broke. ~ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick "Nobody fixes things. When they break you throw them away." ~ The Variable Man by Philip K. Dick Continual complexity makes it impossible for any of us to know anything outside our own personal field-I can't follow the work of the man sitting at the next desk over from me. Too much knowledge has piled up in each field. And there's too many fields." ~ The Variable Man by Philip K. Dick