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“But at least he can still see the lights below us. Although maybe for him it doesn’t matter.” (A Scanner Darkly Quotes)
Philip K. Dick
A Scanner Darkly
“But the actual touch of her lingered, inside his heart. That remained. In all the years of his life ahead, the long years without her, with never seeing her or hearing from her or knowing anything about her, if she was alive or happy or dead or what, that touch stayed locked within him, sealed in himself, and never went away. That one touch of her hand.”
Philip K. Dick
A Scanner Darkly
“Don’t never participate in no bad scenes, he reminded himself; that was his motto in life.”
Philip K. Dick
A Scanner Darkly
“Everything in life is just for a while.”
Philip K. Dick
A Scanner Darkly
“If I’d known it was harmless, I’d have killed it myself!”
Philip K. Dick
A Scanner Darkly
“If the last to know he’s an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected.”
Philip K. Dick
A Scanner Darkly
“Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die and still go on. Sometimes what looks out at you from a person’s eyes maybe died back in childhood.”
Philip K. Dick
A Scanner Darkly
“It sounds like they’re saying passive life is good, he thought. But there is no such thing as passive life. That’s a contradiction.”
Philip K. Dick
A Scanner Darkly
“It’s amazing the limitation of the human anatomy, the fact that food and air must share a common passage.”
Philip K. Dick
A Scanner Darkly
“Life is only heavy and none else; there is only the one trip, all heavy. Heavy that leads to the grave. For everyone and everything.”
Philip K. Dick
A Scanner Darkly
“Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.”
Philip K. Dick
A Scanner Darkly
“That man indeed lives in a zone where no multiplicity can distress him and which is nevertheless the most active workshop of universal fulfillment.”
Philip K. Dick
A Scanner Darkly
“The most dangerous kind of person… is one who is afraid of his own shadow.”
Philip K. Dick
A Scanner Darkly
“The surveillance, he thought, essentially should be maintained. And, if possible, by me. I should always be watching, watching and figuring out, even if I never do anything about what I see; even if I just sit there and observe silently, not seen: that is important, that I as a watcher of all that happens should be at my place.”
Philip K. Dick
A Scanner Darkly
