Author: Philip K. Dick

Cites

• Leo Bulero (1)
  • IN: The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I mean, after all; you have to consider we're only made out of dust. That's admittedly not much to go on and we shouldn't forget that. But even considering, I mean it's a sort of bad beginning, we're not doing too bad. So i personally have faith that even in this lousy situation we're faced with we can make it. You get me?
    FROM: From an interoffice audio-memo сirculated to Pre-Fash level consultants at Perky Pat Layouts, Inc., dictated by Leo Bulero immediately on his return from Mars., (1966), NULL, NULL
• John Dowland (1)
  • IN: Flow my Tears, the Policeman Said (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Flow my tears, fall from your springs! Exiled forever let me mourn; Where night's black bird her sad infamy sings, There let me live forlorn.
    FROM: Flow, My Tears, (1596), Song, UK
• St. Augustine (1)
  • IN: Counter Clock World (1967) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Place there is none; we go backward and forward, and there is no place.
    FROM: Confessions of Augustine, (400), Book, Africa/Italy
• D. H. Lawrence (1)
  • IN: Galactic Pot Healer (1969) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And truly I was afraid, I was most afraid, But even so, honoured still more That he should seek my hospitality From out the dark door of the secret earth.
    FROM: Snake, (1923), Poem, UK
• NULL (3)
  • IN: The Divine Invasion (1981) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The time you have waited for has come. The work is complete; the final world is here. He has been transplanted and is alive.
    FROM: Mysterious voice in the night, (1981), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Valis (1981) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: VALIS (acronym of Vast Active Living Intelligence System, from an American film): A perturbation in the reality field in which a spontaneous self-monitoring negentropic vortex is formed, tending progressively to subsume and incorporate its environment into arrangements of information. Characterized by quasi-consciousness, purpose, intelligence, growth and an armillary coherence.
    FROM: Great Soviet Dictionary, (1926), Definition, Russia
  • IN: Beyond Lies the Wub (1951) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The slovenly wub might well have said: Many men talk like philosophers and live like fools.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
• Robert Herrick (1)
  • IN: The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: An Ode for him Ah Ben! Say how, or when Shall we thy Guests Meet at those Lyrick Feasts, Made at the Sun, The Dog, the triple Tunne? Where we such clusters had, As made us nobly wild, not mad; And yet each Verse of thine Out-did the meate, out-did the frolick wine. My Ben Or come agen: Or send to us, Thy wits great over-plus; But teach us yet Wisely to husband it; Lest we that Talent spend: And having once brought to an end That precious stock; the store Of such a wit the world should have no more.
    FROM: NULL, (1848), NULL, UK
• C. Wright Mills (1)
  • IN: Voices from the Street (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: They find it harder to locate their external enemies than to grapple with their internal conditions. Their seemingly impersonal defeat has spun a personally tragic plot and they are betrayed by what is false within them.
    FROM: White Collar: The American Middle Classes, (1951), Book, US

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• China Miéville (1)
  • IN: Perdido Street Station (2000) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I even gave up, for a while, stopping by the window of the room to look out at the lights and deep, illuminated street. That's a form of dying, that losing contact with the city like that.
    FROM: We Can Build You, (1972), Novel, US
• NULL (2)
  • IN: The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What best can I do? Exactly what I’ve done. My voice for the voiceless.
    FROM: The Exegesis, (2011), Book, US