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" Comprehension follows perception. "
Follows
Comprehension
Perception
" Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night. "
Try
Night
Middle
" Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment. "
Moving
You
Step
" I am a fictionalizing philosopher, not a novelist. "
Philosopher
I Am
Novelist
" I am basically analytical, not creative; my writing is simply a creative way of handling analysis. "
Writing
Creative
I Am
" I am one of the elect, one of the few in the know, in the gnosis. "
Am
Few
I Am
" I don't write beautifully - I just write reports about our condition. "
Reports
About
Write
" I dreamed: I am the fish whose flesh is eaten, and because I am fat, it is good. "
Whose
Fish
I Am
" If you can get them to see the world as you do, they will think as you do. "
See
World
You
" In 1955, when I'd write a science-fiction novel, I'd set it in the year 2000. I realised around 1977 that, 'My God, it's getting exactly like those novels we used to write in the 1950s!' Everything's just turning out to be real. "
God
Everything
Be Real
" I saw a segment of Douglas Trumbull's special effects for 'Blade Runner' on the KNBC-TV news. I recognized it immediately. It was my own interior world. They caught it perfectly. "
Own
Special
News
" It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane. "
Insane
Sometimes
Response
" I used to dig in the garden, and there isn't anything fantastic or ultradimensional about crab grass... unless you are a SF writer, in which case, pretty soon you're viewing crabgrass with suspicion. What are its real motives? And who sent it in the first place? The question I always found myself asking was, 'What is it, really?' "
Real
You
Garden
" 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. "
My Own
People
Mind
" Movies like 'Westworld' used ideas I'd thought of a long time ago. "
Movies
Time
Thought
" Reality, by itself, becomes a story by Philip K. Dick. "
Philip
Becomes
Story
" Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. "
Away
Go
You
" Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful. "
I Am
Science
Knowledge
" Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then. "
Now
Reality
Strange
" 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. "
Words
Control
Communication
" The core of my writing is not art but truth. "
Core
Truth
Writing
" The Martians are always coming. "
Always
Coming
" The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking. "
Better
Time
Long
" The two basic topics which fascinate me are 'What is reality?' and 'What constitutes the authentic human being?' "
Human
Two
Human Being
" The ultimate problem confronting me all my life has been the senseless injury to and neglect of my sister. "
Sister
Been
Life
" The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or time. "
Time
Universe
Information
" This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance. "
Consequences
People
Me
" We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in reality occurs. We have the overwhelming impression that we were reliving the present - deja vu. "
Living
Reality
Present
" We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. 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. "
Media
Live
People
" When I believe, I am crazy. When I don't believe, I suffer psychotic depression. "
Suffer
Believe
Depression
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