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Philip Kindred Dick bol americký spisovateľ sci-fi.

Svojím ojedinelým štýlom písania si získal miesto medzi kultovými spisovateľmi aj popularitu u kritikov a v akademických kruhoch, hoci spočiatku o jeho diela bol len minimálny záujem a Dick žil v chudobe. Jeho dielo, ktorého hlavnou témou je premenlivosť a nespoľahlivosť reality, bolo ovplyvnené braním drog a v neskorších rokoch aj psychickými poruchami.

Dick písal svoje poviedky z nutnosti, keď nemal žiaden iný príjem, iba uverejňovanie sci-fi poviedok v rôznych časopisoch. Počas života bolo jeho dielo neprávom prehliadané. Preslávil sa až posmrtne sfilmovaním jeho románu Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, ktorý bol sfilmovaný pod názvom Blade Runner, pod ktorým je známy aj román.

Svoju prvú poviedku napísal v roku 1951. Toto jeho obdobie bolo veľmi plodné, napísal skoro 80 poviedok. Jeho prvý science fiction román Slnečná lotéria napísal roku 1955. Potom nastalo obdobie, v ktorom písal romány zo súčasnosti. Po kritike americkej vlády dobrovoľne opustil Spojené štáty do Kanady. Zomrel roku 1982 na infarkt. Dickova tvorba je pomerne často námetom filmárov, väčšinou však ide o volné adaptácie poviedok. Paradoxom je, že sám Dick nenávidel Hollywood a nikdy nechcel mať s ním nič spoločné.

Vo svojich poviedkach obrazne opisuje spoločnosť ako niečo, čo „vymýva naše mozgy“, pretože práve taký názor mal na vtedajšiu vládu. V poviedkach vystupujú záporní hrdinovia, ktorí si podmaňujú nič netušiacich ľudí, ktorí im bezhlavo veria. Hlavnými témami jeho diela je premenlivosť a nespoľahlivosť reality. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. december 1928 – 2. marec 1982
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Philip Kindred Dick: Citáty v angličtine

“It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha VALIS

Zdroj: VALIS (1981)

“I'd like to see you move up to the goat class, where I think you belong.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Zdroj: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“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.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha A Scanner Darkly

Zdroj: A Scanner Darkly

“I love you,' Rachael said. 'If I entered a room and found a sofa covered with your hide I'd score very high on the Voigt-Kampff test.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Zdroj: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha The Man in the High Castle

Zdroj: The Man in the High Castle

“The person I am now, compared with the person in the dream, has been baffled and defeated and only supposes he enjoys a full life. In the dreams, I see what a full life really consists of, and it is not what I really have.”

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Philip K. Dick

“It's easy to win. Anybody can win.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha A Scanner Darkly

Zdroj: A Scanner Darkly

“I did not tell Fat this, but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good idea to let him know. After all, if you are a Buddha you should be able to figure it out for yourself.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha VALIS

Zdroj: VALIS

“What profit it a man if he gain the whole world but in this enterprise lose his soul?”

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Philip K. Dick kniha The Man in the High Castle

Zdroj: The Man in the High Castle

“The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for the baroque.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha VALIS

Zdroj: VALIS

“In a civil war… every side is wrong. It’s hopeless to try to untangle it. Everyone is a victim.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha Time Out of Joint

Zdroj: Time Out of Joint

“I have seen myself backward.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha A Scanner Darkly

Zdroj: A Scanner Darkly

“We do not have an ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no effort because he can detect the obvious.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha The Man in the High Castle

Zdroj: The Man in the High Castle (1962)

“Dilemma of a civilized man; body mobilized but danger obscure.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha The Man in the High Castle

Zdroj: The Man in the High Castle (1962)

“When do I see a photograph, when a reflection?”

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Philip K. Dick kniha A Scanner Darkly

Zdroj: A Scanner Darkly

“What a tragic realm this is, he reflected. Those down here are prisoners, and the ultimate tragedy is that they don't know it; they think they are free because they have never been free, and do not understand what it means.”

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Philip K. Dick The Divine Invasion

Zdroj: The Divine Invasion

“The odd thing in this world is that an eager-beaver type, with no original ideas, who mimes those in authority above him right to the last twist of necktie and scrape of chin, always gets noticed. Gets selected. Rises.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha Time Out of Joint

Zdroj: Time Out of Joint

“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.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha A Scanner Darkly

Zdroj: A Scanner Darkly

“It takes a certain amount of courage, he thought, to face yourself and say with candor, I’m rotten. I’ve done evil and I will again. It was no accident; it emanated from the true, authentic me.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

Zdroj: The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965), Chapter 7 (p. 112)

“Freiherr Hugo Reiss made a notation on his pad. Broach subject with SS General Otto Skorzeny, or better yet Otto Ohlendorf at Amt III of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt. Didn’t Ohlendorf head Einsatzgruppe D?”

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Philip K. Dick kniha The Man in the High Castle

The Man in the High Castle

“That is the artist's job: take mineral rock from dark silent earth, transform it into shining light-reflecting form from sky.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha The Man in the High Castle

The Man in the High Castle (1962)

“Madness, like small fish, runs in hosts, in vast numbers of instances.”

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Philip K. Dick The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

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The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982)

“Loyce gazed up, rigid with horror. The splotch of darkness, hanging over the City Hall. Darkness so thick it seemed almost solid. In the vortex something moved. Flickering shapes. Things, descending from the sky, pausing momentarily above the City Hall, fluttering over it in a dense swarm and then dropping silently onto the roof. Shapes. Fluttering shapes from the sky. From the crack of darkness that hung above him. He was seeing—them.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha The Hanging Stranger

"The Hanging Stranger"
The Phillip K. Dick Reader

“You’re not just out of your body; you’re out of your mind, too.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

Zdroj: The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965), Chapter 6 (p. 87)

“Even if all life on our planet is destroyed, there must be other life somewhere which we know nothing of. It is impossible that ours is the only world; there must be world after world unseen by us, in some region or dimension that we simply do not perceive. Even though I can't prove that, even though it isn't logical — I believe it.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha The Man in the High Castle

The Man in the High Castle (1962)

“The emotional masses of ordinary people who resented the Great Work, the bombs and bacteria and guided missiles, were coming to the surface. The were rising up - finally. Putting an end to super-logic: rationality without responsibility.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha Null-O

"Null-O"
The Phillip K. Dick Reader

“matter is plastic in the face of mind.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha VALIS

VALIS (1981)

“The highway construction truck tore up the street at forty miles an hour.”

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Philip K. Dick

Zdroj: Lies, Inc. (1984), Chapter 12 (p. 132)

“It’s not religious fervor; it’s just a mean, very cruel streak.”

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Philip K. Dick kniha The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

Zdroj: The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965), Chapter 8 (p. 142)

“One long-past innocent day, in my prefolly youth, I came upon a statement in an undistinguished textbook on psychiatry that, as when Kant read Hume, woke me forever from my garden-of-eden slumber. "The psychotic does not merely think he sees four blue bivalves with floppy wings wandering up the wall; he does see them. An hallucination is not, strictly speaking, manufactured in the brain; it is received by the brain, like any 'real' sense datum, and the patient act in response to this to-him-very-real perception of reality in as logical a way as we do to our sense data. In any way to suppose he only 'thinks he sees it' is to misunderstand totally the experience of psychosis."”

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Philip K. Dick

"Drugs, Hallucinations, and the Quest for Reality" (1964) quoting an unknown psychiatric text, reprinted in The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick (1995) Lawrence Sutin, ed.

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