Philip K. Dick: Frasi in inglese (pagina 4)

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“Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy… fear makes you always, always hold something back.”

Philip K. Dick libro Valis

Origine: Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (1974), Chapter 21 (p. 171)
Origine: VALIS
Contesto: "Fear,” Jason said, “can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. If you're afraid you don’t commit yourself to life completely; fear makes you always, always hold something back.”'

“How undisturbed, the sleep of the foolish.”

Philip K. Dick Radio libera Albemuth

Origine: Radio Free Albemuth

“I like her; I could watch her the rest of my life. She has breasts that smile.”

Philip K. Dick libro Il cacciatore di androidi

Origine: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“To live is to be hunted.”

Philip K. Dick libro Scorrete lacrime, disse il poliziotto

Variante: To live is to be hunted.
Origine: Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (1974), Chapter 27 (p. 213)
Origine: Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

“Fish cannot carry guns.”

Philip K. Dick libro Valis

Origine: VALIS (1981)

“For each person there is a sentence — a series of words — which has the power to destroy him”

Philip K. Dick libro Valis

VALIS (1981)
Contesto: For each person there is a sentence — a series of words — which has the power to destroy him … another sentence exists, another series of words, which will heal the person. If you're lucky you will get the second; but you can be certain of getting the first: that is the way it works. On their own, without training, individuals know how to deal out the lethal sentence, but training is required to deal out the second.

“Sometimes I wish I knew how to go crazy. I forget how.”

Philip K. Dick libro Un oscuro scrutare

“It’s a lost art,” Hank said. “Maybe there’s an instruction manual on it.”
Origine: A Scanner Darkly (1977), Chapter 4 (p. 56)

“It's the basic condition of life to be required to violate our own identity.”

Philip K. Dick libro Il cacciatore di androidi

Origine: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?