We Can Build You Quotes

“And, as I watched the Lincoln come by degrees to a relationship with what it saw, I understood something: the basis of life is not a greed to exist, not a desire of any kind. It's fear, the fear which I saw here. And not even fear: much worse. Absolute dread. Paralyzing dread so great as to produce apathy.”
― Philip K. Dick, We Can Build You

“I even gave up, for a while, stopping by the window of the room to look out at the lights and deep, illuminated streets. That's a form of dying, that losing contact with the city like that.”
― Philip K. Dick, We Can Build You

“We live in a society where detachment is almost essential.”
― Philip K. Dick , We Can Build You

“I could see why she felt attracted to Sam K. Barrows. Birds of a feather, or rather lizards of a scale.”
― Philip K. Dick, We Can Build You

“Hell,' I said, 'love is an American cult. We take it too seriously; it's practically a national religion.”
― Philip K. Dick, We Can Build You

“When I consider the brief span of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and behind it, the small space that I fill, or even see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces which I know not, and which know not me, I am afraid.'
'I should think so' I said.
'I am afraid, sir, and wonder to see myself here rather than there. For there is no reason why I should be here rather than then'
'Did you come to any conclusion?'
The Stanton cleared its throat, then got out a folded linen handkerchief and carefully blew its nose. 'It seems to me that time must move in strange jumps, passing over intervening epochs. But why it would do that, or even how, I do not know. At a certain point the mind cannot fathom anything further.”
― Philip K. Dick, We Can Build You

“Lo más que puedo pensar en hacer, lo más que puedo hacer en este momento, sería darte un beso. Tal vez en la mejilla, si te parece bien.”
― Philip K. Dick, Podemos fabricarte

“God, what a dreadful thing - the truth.”
― Philip K. Dick, We Can Build You

“the basis of life is not a greed to exist, not a desire of any kind. It's fear, the fear which I saw here. And not even fear; much worse. Absolute dread. Paralyzing dread so great as to produce apathy.”
― Philip K. Dick, We Can Build You

“And," my dad concluded, calming down a little, "all our dignity consists in just that. I mean, man's little and can't fill time and space, but he sure can make use of the brain God gave him.”
― Philip K. Dick, We Can Build You

“To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better,”
― Philip K. Dick, We Can Build You

“What did I do? I asked myself. Fall in love with her? A woman with eyes of ice, a calculating, ambitious schizoid type, a ward of the Federal Government’s Mental Health Bureau who will need psychotherapy the rest of her life, an ex-psychotic who engages in catatonic-excitement harebrained projects, who vilifies and attacks everyone in sight who doesn’t give her exactly what she wants when she wants it? What a woman, what a thing to fall in love with. What terrible fate is in store for me now? It was as if Pris, to me, were both life itself—and anti-life, the dead, the cruel, the cutting and rending, and yet also the spirit of existence itself. Movement: she was motion itself. Life in its growing, planning, calculating, harsh, thoughtless actuality. I could not stand having her around me; I could not stand being without her. Without Pris I dwindled away until I became nothing and eventually died like a bug in the backyard, unnoticed and unimportant; around her I was slashed, goaded, cut to pieces, stepped on—yet somehow I lived: in that, I was real. Did I enjoy suffering? No. It was that it seemed as if suffering was part of life, part of being with Pris. Without Pris there was no suffering, nothing erratic, unfair, unbalanced. But also, there was nothing alive, only small-time schlock schemes, a dusty little office with two or three men scrabbling in the sand”
― Philip K. Dick, We Can Build You

“You’ll see how convincing this simulacrum is,”
― Philip K. Dick, We Can Build You

“Do you think someday somebody will make a simulacrum of you and me? And we’ll have to come back to life?”
― Philip K. Dick, We Can Build You

“I had insight and yet I did not; one part of me knew and understood, the rest seethe like a captured animal that yearns to get back to its own environment, it's own familiar places.”
― Philip K. Dick, We Can Build You

“That's why their lives are worse than ours; they can't give up and die - they have to go on.”
― Philip K. Dick, We Can Build You

“I can't make your reality-situation palatable to you. But I can help you comprehend it.”
― Philip K. Dick, We Can Build You

“Sentado en la biblioteca pública de Seattle, con todo el material de consulta a mi alrededor, llegué a la conclusión de que Lincoln era lo que hoy llamaríamos un psicótico maniaco-depresivo.”
― Philip K. Dick, Podemos fabricarte

“La forma en la que no te miran es casi japonesa.”
― Philip K. Dick, Podemos fabricarte

“Se puede decir que un hotel es bueno cuando encargas algo al servicio de habitaciones y el empleado no te mira en ningún momento al entrar en la estancia.”
― Philip K. Dick, Podemos fabricarte

“Es el tipo de cosa que, si sabes que se puede hacer, la haces tú mismo, si dispones del tiempo suficiente.”
― Philip K. Dick, Podemos fabricarte

“Es como la fábrica totalmente automatizada que se repara a sí misma. ¿Sabe a lo que se refiere la palabra «retroalimentación»?”
― Philip K. Dick, Podemos fabricarte

“¿tiene por casualidad una droga cuyo efecto, en unos términos semejantes a los del órgano Hammerstein, corresponda a algunos fragmentos del movimiento coral de la Novena de Beethoven?”
― Philip K. Dick, Podemos fabricarte