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VALIS

Philip K. Dick

Top 10 Best Quotes

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”

“When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet.”

“There exists, for everyone, a sentence - a series of words - that has the power to destroy you. Another sentence exists, another series of words, that could heal you. If you're lucky you will get the second, but you can be certain of getting the first.”

“This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.”

“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive. ”

“Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back.”

“The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razor’s edge, sharper than a hound’s tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is more elusive than the merest phantom. Perhaps it does not even exist; perhaps it is a phantom. ”

“The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.”

“It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis,' or, put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking hours.”

“Fish cannot carry guns.”

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