The Crack in Space Quotes

“When you had hopes once,’ Hadley explained after a pause, ‘it’s always hard to go on after you give them up. It’s not so hard to give them up; that part is easy. After all, you’ve got to, sometimes. But afterward . . .’ He gestured, grunting, ‘. . . What takes their place? Nothing. And the emptiness is frightening. It’s so big. It sort of absorbs everything else; sometimes it’s bigger than the whole world. It grows. It becomes bottomless.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Crack in Space

“You stupid bastard, does what you’re fighting for look so real now? Skin pigment. What a laugh! Why not eye color? Too bad nobody ever thought of that. It cuts it a little finer, but basically it’s the same thing.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Crack in Space

“They were a form of mutated twinning, joined at the base of the skull so that a single cephalic structure served both separate bodies. Evidently the personality George inhabited one hemisphere of the brain, made use of one eye: the right, as he recalled. And the personality Walt existed on the other side, distinct with its own idiosyncrasies, views and drives—and its own eye from which to view the outside universe.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Crack in Space

“The ignorance of the dark-skinned strata, despite the government’s ceaseless educational campaigns. No wonder their women were often preg.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Crack in Space

“Politics is the enemy of a sound economic entity, he mused. New laws, harsher tax rates, meddling . . . and now this.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Crack in Space

“Let me describe the advantages of Uranus,”
― Philip K. Dick, The Crack in Space

“Hello, Homo friends,”
― Philip K. Dick, The Crack in Space

“Now it was 2080 and public—and private—morality had worsened.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Crack in Space

“The passage of even a little time was a great edifier.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Crack in Space

“And the instruments were cheap and available to virtually anyone—even, as history had shown, some ignorant, worthless smallfry, without friends, funds, or even a fanatical purpose, an overriding political”
― Philip K. Dick, The Crack in Space

“newsclown,”
― Philip K. Dick, The Crack in Space

“When you had hopes once,’ Hadley explained after a pause, ‘it’s always hard to go on after you give them up. It’s not so hard to give them up; that part is easy. After all, you’ve got to, sometimes. But afterward . . .’ He gestured, grunting, ‘. . . What takes their place? Nothing. And the emptiness is frightening. It’s so big. It sort of absorbs everything else; sometimes it’s bigger than the whole world. It grows. It becomes bottomless”
― Philip K. Dick, The Crack in Space

“And did not like what he saw. Beneath the doctor’s suavity there lay a coldness, something fixed and hard. This was no ordinary person, and Erickson felt uneasy.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Crack in Space