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When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion.
Philip K. Dick1928–1982Lies, Inc. (1984)
Skill is a function of chance. It’s an intuitive best-use of chance situations.
Philip K. Dick1928–1982Solar Lottery (1955), Chapter 5 (p. 60)
- Luck
My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.
Charles Dickens1812–1870Great Expectations (1861), Chapter IIn context
Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.
Charles Dickens1812–1870Great Expectations (1861), Chapter IXIn context
- Change
- Life & Death
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but⁠—I hope⁠—into a better shape.
Charles Dickens1812–1870Great Expectations (1861), Chapter LIXIn context
- Change
- Experience
London. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill.
Charles Dickens1812–1870Bleak House (1853), Chapter IIn context
Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell.
Emily Dickinson1830–1886My life closed twice before its close (Fr)In context
Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.
Emily Dickinson1830–1886
- Luck
What is this world? A complex whole, subject to endless revolutions.
Denis Diderot1713–1784Dying words of Nicholas Saunderson as portrayed in Lettre sur les aveugles [Letter on the Blind] (1749)
- Change
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
ADAnnie Dillard1945–2026The Writing Life (1989)
Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
Walt Disney1901–1966The Quotable Walt Disney (2001)
- Entertainment
- Ideas
Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881
- Change
Despair is the conclusion of fools.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881The Wondrous Tale of Alroy pt. 10, ch. 17
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Henrietta Temple (1837), Book 2, chapter 4
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context