The authentic human being is one of us who instinctively knows what he should not do, and, in addition, he will balk at doing it. He will refuse to do it, even if this brings down dread consequences to him and to those whom he loves. 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. Their deeds may be small, and almost always unnoticed, unmarked by history. Their names are not remembered, nor did these authentic humans expect their names to be remembered. I see their authenticity in an odd way: not in their willingness to perform great heroic deeds but in their quiet refusals. In essence, they cannot be compelled to be what they are not. . Philip K. Dick
On the surface, I was calm: in secret, without really admitting it, I was waiting for something. Her return? How could I have been waiting for that? We all know that we are material creatures, subject to the laws of physiology and physics, and not...
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We all know interspecies romance is weird.
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Tim Burton
I simply regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world created therein has different rules than my regular human world.
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Mindy Kaling
Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?
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Douglas Adams
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
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Douglas Adams
More Quotes By Philip K. Dick
The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hopes and labors for others.
We must seek together to address the good aspirations of people everywhere, for we are bound together through great commonality.
A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.
Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.
Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
