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Philip K. Dick Quotes about Lying

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…we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.

…we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.

Philip K. Dick
Lying, Self, People
Philip K. Dick (2012). “Counter-Clock World”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I'm tired and I want to rest; I want to get out of this and go lie down somewhere, off where it's dark and no one speaks. Forever.

Philip K. Dick
Lying, Tired, Dark
Philip K. Dick (1980). “Dr. Bloodmoney”, Dell Publishing Company

A child of today can detect a lie quicker than the wisest adult of two decades ago. When I want to know what is true, I ask my children.

Philip K. Dick
Children, Lying, Two
Philip K. Dick (1995). “The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings”, Vintage

Should we have a leader or should we think for ourselves? Obviously the latter in principle. But-sometimes there lies a gulf between what is theoretically right and that which is practical.

Philip K. Dick
Lying, Thinking, Leader
"The Last of the Masters". Book by Philip K. Dick, p. 337, 1954.

Any system which says, This is a rotten world, wait for the next, give up, do nothing, succumb--that may be the basic Lie and if we participate in believing it and acting (or rather not acting) on it we involve ourselves in the Lie and suffer dreadfully... which only reinforces that particular Lie.

Philip K. Dick
Giving Up, Lying, Believe
Philip K. Dick (2011). “The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

He sat watching the people go by, wondering how a thing of this sort could have come about, I must have let myself get mixed up in something horrible, he thought ... Probably she's the one who did it; I have no control of myself or anything that's happened. So now I'm waking up. I'm awake, he thought ... I've been destroyed and now that I'm awake all I can do is realize it ... The shock of getting up there and telling that account made me see. Mixture of lies and bits of truth. Woven together. Unable to see where each starts.

Philip K. Dick
Lying, People, Together

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