The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

Quote by Philip K Dick

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When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet.

When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet.

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to...

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to...

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you...

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you...

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

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

Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.

Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up...

The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up...

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step...

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step...

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't...

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't...

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man...

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man...

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence...

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence...

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.

It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking...

It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking...

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is...

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is...

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system...

Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system...

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be...

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be...