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Philip K. Dick _ Now Wait for Last Year
Everything's the same, when you break through to absolute reality; it's all one vast blur.
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Philip K. Dick _ Now Wait for Last Year
Has using that time-travel drug scrambled your wits, you don't know you've got only one tiny life and that lies ahead of you, not sideways or back? Are you waiting for last year to come by again or something?
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Philip K. Dick _ Now Wait for Last Year
And what good was a political strategist who couldn't look ahead to his own death? Without that he would have been merely another Hitler, who didn't want his country to survive him.
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Philip K. Dick _ Now Wait for Last Year
she had it-his soul-and she was turning it over and over on her tongue. Goddam her!
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Philip K. Dick _ Now Wait for Last Year
Maybe, he pondered as he ascended the stairs, that's my problem with Kathy. I can't remember our combined past: can't recall the days when we voluntarily lived with each other... now it's become an involuntary arrangement, derived God knows how from the past.
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Philip K. Dick _ Now Wait for Last Year
The most horrid sound in the world, that of the once-was: alive in the past, perishing in the present, a corpse made of dust in the future.
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Philip K. Dick _ Now Wait for Last Year
I've married before and it was no better, and if I divorce Kathy I'll marry again-because as my brainbasher puts it I can't find my identity outside the role of husband and daddy and big butter-and-egg-man wage earner-and the next damn one will be the same because that's the kind I select. It's rooted in my temperament.
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Philip K. Dick _ Now Wait for Last Year
There ought to be an ordinance that a man can't work for the same outfit as his wife; hell, even in the same city.
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Philip K. Dick _ Now Wait for Last Year
Well, that's marriage these days. Legalized hate.
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Philip K. Dick _ Now Wait for Last Year
In marriage the greatest hatred that is possible between human beings can be generated, perhaps because of the constant proximity, perhaps because once there was love. The intimacy is still there, even though the love element has disappeared. So a will to power, a struggle for domination, comes into being.
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Philip K. Dick _ Now Wait for Last Year
most horrid sound in the world, that of the once-was: alive in the past, perishing in the present, a corpse made of dust in the future.
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Philip K. Dick _ Now Wait for Last Year
life is composed of reality configurations so constituted. To abandon her would be to say, I can't endure reality as such. I have to have uniquely special easier conditions.
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