Philip K. Dick: Frasi in inglese

Philip K. Dick era scrittore di Fantascienza statunitense. Frasi in inglese.

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“Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work.”

Introduction to The Golden Man (1980)

“Life in Anaheim, California, was a commercial for itself, endlessly replayed. Nothing changed; it just spread out farther and farther in the form of neon ooze. What there was always more of had been congealed into permanence long ago, as if the automatic factory that cranked out these objects had jammed in the on position.”

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Philip K. Dick libro Un oscuro scrutare

Origine: A Scanner Darkly (1977), Chapter 2 (p. 31)

“In the early twentieth century the problem of production had been solved; after that it was the problem of consumption that plagued society. In the 1950s and '60s, consumer commodities and farm products began to pile up in vast towering mountains all over the Western World. As much as possible was given away — but that threatened to subvert the open market. By 1980, the pro tem solution was to heap up the products and burn them: billions of dollars of worth, week after week.”

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Philip K. Dick libro Solar Lottery

Origine: Solar Lottery (1955), Chapter 2 (p. 16)

“You must beware of seeing malice behind accidental injury.”

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Philip K. Dick libro Clans of the Alphane Moon

Origine: Clans of the Alphane Moon (1964), Chapter 11 (p. 196)

“Too bad, Matson thought archly, that George Hoffman didn’t discover more planets in more star systems habitable by us, the frail needs of living, sentient, mentating biochemical upright bipeds which we humans are.”

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Philip K. Dick

Origine: Lies, Inc. (1984), Chapter 3 (p. 19)

““We all make mistakes,” the cab said piously.
“But some of us,” Barney said, “make fatal ones.” First about our loved ones, our wife and children, and then about our employer, he said to himself.
The cab hummed on.
And then, he said to himself, we make one last one. About our whole life, summing it all up. Whether to take a job with Eldritch or go into the service. And whichever we choose we can know this:
It was the wrong alternative.”

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Philip K. Dick libro Le tre stimmate di Palmer Eldritch

Origine: The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965), Chapter 7 (p. 119)

“"His brain pattern has been fully scanned. But it takes time for them to plot it out. We're all running around like lunatics while he just sits there!" Wisdom poked a stubby finger at the window. "We caught him easily enough. He can't have much, can he? But I'd like to know what it is. Before we euth him."
"Maybe we should keep him alive until we know."
"Euth in forty-eight hours," Wisdom repeated stubbornly. "Whether we know or not. I don't like him. He gives me the creeps."”

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The Golden Man (1954)

“God,” Eldritch said, “promises eternal life. I can do better; I can deliver it.”

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Philip K. Dick libro Le tre stimmate di Palmer Eldritch

Origine: The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965), Chapter 6 (p. 86)

“It's the fault of those physicists and that synchronicity theory, every particle being connected with every other; you can't fart without changing the balance in the universe. It makes living a funny joke with nobody around to laugh. I open a book and get a report on future events that even God would like to file and forget. And who am I? The wrong person; I can tell you that.”

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Philip K. Dick libro La svastica sul sole

The Man in the High Castle (1962)

“Insanity — to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others.”

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Philip K. Dick libro Noi marziani

Martian Time-Slip (1964)

“A rolling stone gathers no moss.'
Try as I might I could not remember the meaning. At last I hazarded, 'Well, it means a person who's always active and never pauses to reflect — ' No, that didn't sound right. I tried again. 'That means a man who is always active and keeps growing in mental and moral stature won't grow stale.' He was looking at me more intently, so I added by way of clarification, 'I mean, a man who's active and doesn't let grass grow under his feet, he'll get ahead in life.'
Doctor Nisea said, 'I see.' And I knew that I had revealed, for the purposes of legal diagnosis, a schizophrenic thinking disorder.
'What does it mean?' I asked. 'Did I get it backward?'
'Yes, I'm afraid so. The generally-accepted meaning of the proverb is the opposite of what you've given; it is generally taken to mean that a person who — '
'You don't have to tell me,' I broke in. 'I remember — I really knew it. A person who's unstable will never acquire anything of value.”

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Philip K. Dick libro We Can Build You

Origine: We Can Build You (1972), chapter 17, page 224.

“One of the most effective forms of industrial or military sabotage limits itself to damage that can never be thoroughly proven—or even proven at all—to be anything deliberate. It is like an invisible political movement; perhaps it isn’t there at all. If a bomb is wired to a car’s ignition, then obviously there is an enemy; if public building or a political headquarters is blown up, then there is a political enemy. But if an accident, or a series of accidents, occurs, if equipment merely fails to function, if it appears faulty, especially in a slow fashion, over a period of natural time, with numerous small failures and misfirings—then the victim, whether a person or a party or a country, can never marshal itself to defend itself.”

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Philip K. Dick libro Un oscuro scrutare

Origine: A Scanner Darkly (1977), Chapter 6 (p. 91)

“Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man in his twenties, a whole additional year slipped by and had to be recorded, a continually growing sum which he could not reconcile with his self-image. He still saw himself, in his mind's eye, as youthful, and when he caught sight of himself in photographs he usually collapsed … Somebody took my actual physical presence away and substituted this, he had thought from time to time. Oh well, so it went.”

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Philip K. Dick libro A Maze of Death

A Maze of Death (1970)

““Isn’t there any way—” He broke off. Can’t the past be altered? he asked himself. Evidently not. Cause and effect work in only one direction, and change is real. So what’s gone is gone, and I might as well get out of here.”

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Philip K. Dick libro Le tre stimmate di Palmer Eldritch

Origine: The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965), Chapter 10 (p. 173)

“The hell with him, he thought bitterly. The hell with patriotism in general. In the specific and the abstract. Birds of a feather, soldiers and cops. Anti-intellectual and anti-Negro. Anti-everything except beer, dogs, cars and guns.”

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Philip K. Dick libro Eye in the Sky

Origine: Eye in the Sky (1957), Chapter 2 (p. 15)

““Why?” Hamilton lashed out suddenly and loudly. “Why the hell did God answer that prayer? Why not some of the others? Why not Bill Laws’s?”
“God approved of your prayer,” Silky said. “After all, it’s up to Him; He has to decide how He feels about it.”
“That’s terrible.”
Silky shrugged. “Maybe so.”
“How can you live with that? You never know what’s going to happen—there’s no order, no logic.” It infuriated him that she did not object, that it seemed natural to her. “We’re helpless; we have to depend on whim. It keeps us from being people—we’re like animals waiting to be fed. Rewarded or punished.””

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Philip K. Dick libro Eye in the Sky

Origine: Eye in the Sky (1957), Chapter 6 (p. 77)

“They think they are free because they have never been free, and do not know what it means.”

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Philip K. Dick The Divine Invasion

The Divine Invasion (1981)

“He flushes at his presence in a comfort station.”

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Philip K. Dick

Origine: Lies, Inc. (1984), Chapter 13 (p. 139)

“We'll know homo superior when he comes — by definition. He'll be the one we won't be able to euth.”

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Philip K. Dick

Origine: The Golden Man (1954)

“But frankly—may I so speak?—your CIA people’s theory strikes me as a miserable bundle of random suspicions, a few separate facts strung together by an intricate structure of ad hoc theorizing, in which everyone is credited with enormous powers for intrigue. A much simpler view can be entertained with more common sense, and as a CIA employee you must be aware that, like all intelligence agencies, it lacks the faculty of common sense.”

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Philip K. Dick libro Clans of the Alphane Moon

Origine: Clans of the Alphane Moon (1964), Chapter 8, (p. 123)