Every junkie, he thought, is a recording.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that every individual struggling with addiction is like a recording of their experiences and struggles.
In this quote, Philip K. Dick underscores the idea that individuals grappling with addiction are often trapped in cycles of behavior that replay their struggles, much like a recording that cannot change its content. Each 'junkie' embodies a story of pain, memory, and loss, reminiscent of the struggles that shape their existence, and highlights the need for empathy and understanding towards those facing addiction.
In practice
This quote could be used in a discussion about addiction recovery programs.
We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in reality occurs. We have the overwhelming impression that we were reliving the present - deja vu.
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components.
"Do you have information that there's an android in the cast? I'd be glad to help you, and if I were an android would I be glad to help you?" "An android," he said, "doesn't care what happens to another android. That's one of the indications we look for." "Then," Miss Luft said, "you must be an android."
The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or time.
A man is an angel that has gone deranged.
Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.
At twenty life was like wrestling an octopus. Every moment mattered. At thirty it was a walk in the country. Most of the time your mind was somewhere else. By the time you got to seventy, it was probably like watching snooker on the telly.
You can tell someone you love them first. You can try to speak only the truth for a whole week. You can jump out of an airplane or spend Christmas Day all by your lonesome. You can help people who need help and fight real bad guys. You can dance fast or take an improv class or do one of those Ironman things… Adventure and danger can be good for your heart and soul.
I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany´s.
One thing alone I charge you. As you live, believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life. The only possible death is to lose belief in this truth simply because the great end comes slowly, because time is long.
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