

“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," Dick wrote of these stories. "In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if all of us are real.”
― The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 1: The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford
― The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 1: The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford

“We can be beacons of light”
― Love is the Answer God is the Cure
― Love is the Answer God is the Cure

“A big thing can be simply the sum of small things.”
― Plato, Not Prozac!: Applying Eternal Wisdom to Everyday Problems
― Plato, Not Prozac!: Applying Eternal Wisdom to Everyday Problems

“It’s the opportunity of a lifetime,” said Ito finally, who had been keeping very quiet
up to this point.
“Indeed. How much will it cost?” asked Brown
“About twenty million Interplanetary Credits,” said Demba. “A modest investment for
a man of your means.”
“Indeed,” said Brown again. That was all the money he had, which started to strike
him as strange, when his thoughts were interrupted.
“We’ll arrange a visit to the mine,” said Ito. “Show you the place itself.”
“Indeed,” said Brown. Or had he said that? The strange waking memory he had fallen
into started to become repetitive. Reality started to flow back in.
Diamonds, thought Brown. All those diamonds in that mine.”
― The Arbitrator
― The Arbitrator
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