Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)

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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.

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' Everything is true, he said. Everything anybody has ever thought.

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You have to be with other people, he thought. In order to live at all. I mean before they came here I could stand it... But now it has changed. You can't go back, he thought. You can't go from people to nonpeople." - J.R. Isidore

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You mean old books?" "Stories written before space travel but about space travel." "How could there have been stories about space travel before —" "The writers," Pris said, "made it up.

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The electric things have their life too. Paltry as those lives are.

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I like her; I could watch her the rest of my life. She has breasts that smile.

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Maybe I shouldn't have told you—about it being electrical. She put her hand out, touched his arm; she felt guilty, seeing the effect it had on him, the change.
No, Rick said. I'm glad to know. Or rather— He became silent. I'd prefer to know.

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For Mercer everything is easy, he thought, because Mercer accepts everything. Nothing is alien to him. But what I've done, he thought; that's become alien to me. In fact everything has become unnatural; I've become an unnatural self.

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Maybe I'll go where I can see stars, he said to himself as the car gained velocity and altitude; it headed away from San Francisco, toward the uninhabited desolation to the north. To the place where no living thing would go. Not unless it felt that the end had come.

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No one today remembered why the war had come about or who, if anyone, had won. The dust which had contaminated most of the planet's surface had originated in no country, and no one, even the wartime enemy, had planned on it.

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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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Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.' 'Will you be all right?' 'I'll be all right,' he said, and thought, And I'm going to die. Both those are true, too.

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