in Quotes & Aphorisms (Music)
Music is the single thread making my life into a coherency.
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People just have no criterion left to evaluate the importance of things. I think the only thing that would really affect people would be the announcement that the world was going to be blown up by the hydrogen bomb. Outside of that, I don't think they would react to anything.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Our situation, the human situation, is, in the final analysis, neither grim nor meaningful but funny. The wisest people are the clowns.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Death)
Death makes me mad. Human and animal suffering make me mad; whenever one of my cats dies I curse God and I mean it; I feel fury at him. I'd like to get him here where I could interrogate him, tell him that I think the world is screwed up, that man didn't sin and fall but was pushed, which is bad enough, but was then sold the lie that he is basically sinful, which I know he is not.
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Posted by: Andrea Terrasi
The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.
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Posted by: Prometeo
It was the only possible way. Now all is clear to me. Being undecided isn't necessarily bad. Non seeing everything in terms of slogans and organized parties and faiths and death may be a conviction for which it worth to die for. I thought of having no beliefs. Now I see I have a very strong one.
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He slammed the covers of the Grasshopper violently together. Actual name probably Abendstein. No doubt the SD has looked into it by now. [...]But this book, Reiss thought, is dangerous. If Abendstein should be found dangling from the ceiling some fine morning, it would be a sobering notice to anyone who might be influenced by this book. We would have had the last word. Written the postscript.
from the book "" by Philip K. Dick
Juliana said, 'I believe he's got a lot of courage to write that book. If the Axis had lost the war, we'd
be able to say and write anything we wanted, like we used to; we'd be one country and we'd have a fair legal system, the same one for all of us.'
from the book "" by Philip K. Dick
Posted by: Andrea Manfrč
I am an eye.
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Posted by: Ssdf Sdsdfa
Even animals... So much as eels, mice, snakes, spiders... Are sacred. As you say, even animals are protected by law. All that lives is protected. Any organic form which contorts itself , curls up, flies or swarms or lays eggs.
from the book "" by Philip K. Dick