“What does a scanner see? he asked himself. I mean, really see? Into the head? Down into the heart? Does a passive infrared scanner like they used to use or a cube-type holo-scanner like they use these days, the latest thing, see into me - into us - clearly or darkly? I hope it does, he thought, see clearly, because I can't any longer these days see into myself. I see only murk. Murk outside; murk inside. I hope, for everyone's sake, the scanners do better. Because, he thought, if the scanner sees only darkly, the way I myself do, then we are cursed, cursed again and like we have been continually, and we'll wind up dead this way, knowing very little and getting that little fragment wrong too.”
― A Scanner Darkly
― A Scanner Darkly
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
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“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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“I have seen myself backward.”
― A Scanner Darkly
― A Scanner Darkly
“If a man's got talent and guts to buck society, he's obviously above average. You want to hold on to him. You straighten him out and turn him into a plus value. Why throw him away? Do that enough and all you've got left are the sheep.”
― The Demolished Man
― The Demolished Man
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