“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
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“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
“Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see -egoism, arrogance, conceit, selfishness, greed, lust, intolerance, anger, lying, cheating, gossiping and slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then you will be read to fight the enemy you can see.”
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“Sex: In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.”
― Marlene Dietrich's ABC
― Marlene Dietrich's ABC
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