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We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, 'What is real?' Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms.

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The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

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This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.

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I am basically analytical, not creative; my writing is simply a creative way of handling analysis.

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The Martians are always coming.

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Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.

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In 1955, when I'd write a science-fiction novel, I'd set it in the year 2000. I realised around 1977 that, 'My God, it's getting exactly like those novels we used to write in the 1950s!' Everything's just turning out to be real.

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It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: March 2nd, 1928

Died: March 2nd, 1982

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