Yet, the dark fire waned: the life force oozed out of her, as he had so often witnessed before with other androids. The classic resignation. Mechanical, intellectual acceptance of that which a genuine organism - with two billion years of the pressure to live and evolve hagriding it - could never have reconciled itself to. Philip K. Dick
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.
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Joseph Heller
Soldiers manage by dividing themselves. They're one man in the killing, another at home, and the man that dandles his bairn on his knee has nothing to do wi' the man who crushed his enemy's throat with his boot, so he tells himself, sometimes successfully.
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Diana Gabaldon
The world is vicious, too huge to care about even its own survival
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Richard Powers
If we truly trust no one, we cannot survive.
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Megan Whalen Turner
Nadia's experiences during her first months as a single woman living on her own did, in some moments, equal or even surpass the loathsomeness and dangerousness that her family had warned her about. But she had a job at an insurance company, and she was...
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Mohsin Hamid
More Quotes By Philip K. Dick
You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of...
To live is to be haunted.
If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.
This is a mournful discovery.1) Those who agree with you are insane2) Those who do not agree with you are in power.
Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of reality singular, or shouldn't we really be talking about plural realities? And...
