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— Philip K Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Ridley Scott, Blade Runner (film still)
Ridley Scott, Blade Runner (film still)
“The report read ‘Routine retirement of a replicant.’ That didn’t make me feel any better about shooting a woman in the back.”
Replicants singing Rachael’s song.
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Ridley Scott, Blade Runner (film still)
Ridley Scott, Blade Runner (film still)
“All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain… Time to die.”
“Emigrate or degenerate! The choice is yours!”
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“So I left the TV sound off and I sat down at my mood organ and I experimented. And I finally found a setting for despair. So I put it on my schedule for twice a month; I think that’s a reasonable amount of time to feel hopeless about everything.”
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“Everything is true,” he said. “Everything anybody has ever thought.”
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“Remember when you were six? You and your brother snuck into an empty building through a basement window. You were going to play doctor. He showed you his, but when it got to be your turn you chickened and ran; you remember that? You ever tell anybody that? Remember the spider that lived outside your window? Orange body, green legs. Watched her build a web all summer, then one day there’s a big egg in it. The egg hatched…”
The egg hatched.
“Yeah…”
And a hundred baby spiders came out. And they ate her.
“They used to talk about seeing only reflections of reality. Not reality itself. The main thing wrong with a reflection is not that it isn’t real, but that it’s reversed.”
— Philip K Dick, A Scanner Darkly
“You’ve been duplicated, you’ve been recreated, you’ve been… replaced.”
“Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.”
— Philip K Dick
