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“My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression.”
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
“Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.”
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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 them.”
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“I'd like to see you move up to the goat class, where I think you belong.”
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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