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Philip K. Dick Quotes about Reality

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The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

Philip K. Dick
Writing, Reality, People
1986 I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon,'How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later'.

Reality is just a point of view.

Philip K. Dick
Reality, Views, Point Of View

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

Philip K. Dick
Inspirational, Life, Reality
Philip K. Dick (2007). “Vintage PKD”, p.169, Vintage

How much of what we call 'reality' is actually out there or rather within our own head?

Philip K. Dick
Reality, Statistics

Reality denied comes back to haunt.

Philip K. Dick
Reality, Psychology, Denied
Philip K. Dick (2012). “Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said”, p.139, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.

Philip K. Dick
Reality, Links, Strange
Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside.

Philip K. Dick
Life, Reality, Fluttering
Philip K. Dick (2012). “Ubik”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards. Okay, so I should revise my standards; I'm out of step. I should yield to reality. I have never yielded to reality. That's what SF is all about. If you wish to yield to reality, go read Philip Roth; read the New York literary establishment mainstream bestselling writers

Philip K. Dick
New York, Writing, Reality
Philip K. Dick (2007). “Vintage PKD”, p.126, Vintage

My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?'

Philip K. Dick
Reality, Preoccupation, Majors
"Dictionary of Literary Biography". Book by Gale, vol. 8, part 1, 1981.

My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality ?' Many of my stories and novels deal with psychotic states or drug-induced states by which I can present the concept of a multiverse rather than a universe. Music and sociology are themes in my novels, also radical political trends; in particular I've written about fascism and my fear of it.

Philip K. Dick
Reality, Political, Drug

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