We Can Remember It For You Wholesale: Volume Five Of The Collected Stories

by Philip K. Dick

Invasion from outside there somewhere, Meritan thought to himself as he played. That’s what they’re afraid of. Fear of the unknown, like tiny children. That’s our ruling circles: tiny, fear-ridden children playing ritualistic games with super-powerful toys.

“In the society of the insane,” Joan said, “the sick are well.”

Major Hauk drank for a moment from a Dixie Cup, then tried a little more from the bottle just to be sure it was Scotch all the way to the bottom.

Eng had always been a violent and autistic man; no one could influence him.

WE CAN REMEMBER IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE

Objective reality is a synthetic construct, dealing with a hypothetical universalization of a multitude of subjective realities.

Life is transitory and often not worth being fucked over by.

You are not going to shoot down the luminiferous aether which animates our souls.

The psychotic person actually chooses the more difficult path; he forces his will uphill. It is not true that he takes the line of least resistance, but he thinks he does. There, precisely, lies his error. The basis of psychosis, in a nutshell, is the chronic inability to see the easy way out. All the behavior, all that constitutes psychotic activity and the psychotic lifestyle, stems from this perceptual flaw.