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Culture: Shared Human Experience.

Culture is the shared set of beliefs, values, behaviors, and practices that are learned and transmitted across generations within a group. It is deeply meaningful to human life because it provides a framework for understanding the world, navigating social interactions, and shaping our identities, ultimately giving us a sense of belonging and purpose.

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Aleister Crowley
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Bob Marley
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Abbie Hoffman
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Timothy Leary

# Culture & Drug culture

Aleister Crowley
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Aleister Crowley" (Quotes, The Book of the Law (1904):
Also known as Liber AL vel Legis )
“To me! To me!”
— Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley
Context: • II:70-71
• Source: Wikiquote: "Aleister Crowley" (Quotes, The Book of the Law (1904):
Also known as Liber AL vel Legis )
“But exceed! exceed!”
— Aleister Crowley
U
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Scarface: The World Is Yours" (Tony Montana)
“Wanna play with me?”
— Unknown
U
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Scarface: The World Is Yours" (Tony Montana)
“You want a job, man?”
— Unknown
P
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Philip K. Dick" (Quotes, VALIS (1981):
A novel featuring Dick himself. The title is an acronym for Vast Active Living Intelligence System, Dick's gnostic vision of God.)
“Fish cannot carry guns.”
— Phillip K. Dick

# Culture & Mystics

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Context: • Chapter 12 (p. 131)(This and the next six quotes are referred to by the author as "Thingisms")
• Source: Wikiquote: "Philip K. Dick" (Quotes, Lies, Inc. (1984): Originally published as The Unteleported Man in 1964, republished with additional material in 1983. Published with further additional material as Lies, Inc. in 1984.
All page numbers from the 2004 Vintage trade paperback edition, )
“The book business is hidebound.”
— Phillip K. Dick
P
Context: • Chapter 7 (p. 118)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Philip K. Dick" (Quotes, A Scanner Darkly (1977):
All page numbers from the 1991 Vintage trade paperback edition )
“Where there's dope, there's hope!”
— Phillip K. Dick
Aleister Crowley
Context: • II:28-29
• Source: Wikiquote: "Aleister Crowley" (Quotes, The Book of the Law (1904):
Also known as Liber AL vel Legis )
“May Because be accursed for ever!”
— Aleister Crowley
P
Context: • Chapter 11 (p. 124)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Philip K. Dick" (Quotes, Lies, Inc. (1984): Originally published as The Unteleported Man in 1964, republished with additional material in 1983. Published with further additional material as Lies, Inc. in 1984.
All page numbers from the 2004 Vintage trade paperback edition, )
“You're a goldmine of misinformation.”
— Phillip K. Dick

# Culture & Novelists from the United States

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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "William S. Burroughs" (Quotes, Junkie (1953))
“Sodomy is as old as the human species.”
— William S. Burroughs
P
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Philip K. Dick" (Quotes, VALIS (1981):
A novel featuring Dick himself. The title is an acronym for Vast Active Living Intelligence System, Dick's gnostic vision of God.)
“The Empire Never Ended”
— Phillip K. Dick
P
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Philip K. Dick" (Quotes, VALIS (1981):
A novel featuring Dick himself. The title is an acronym for Vast Active Living Intelligence System, Dick's gnostic vision of God.)
“"matter is plastic in the face of mind."”
— Phillip K. Dick

# Culture & Novelists from England

Thomas De Quincey
Context: • Pt. I.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Thomas De Quincey" (Quotes, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822-1856))
“The burden of the incommunicable.”
— Thomas De Quincey
Aldous Huxley
Context: • Ch. XXVIII
• Source: Wikiquote: "Aldous Huxley" (Quotes, Crome Yellow (1921))
“The proper study of mankind is books.”
— Aldous Huxley
Aleister Crowley
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Aleister Crowley" (Quotes, The Book of the Law (1904):
Also known as Liber AL vel Legis )
“Now a curse upon Because and his kin!”
— Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley
Context: • I:63-66
• Source: Wikiquote: "Aleister Crowley" (Quotes, The Book of the Law (1904):
Also known as Liber AL vel Legis )
“The Manifestation of Nuit is at an end.”
— Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley
Context: • p. 238
• Source: Wikiquote: "Aleister Crowley" (Quotes, Magical Record of the Beast 666: The Diaries of Aleister Crowley 1914-1920 (1972))
“I sing for God, our Devil, our Lord, Aiwaz.”
— Aleister Crowley

# Culture & Absurdists

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Context: • Chapter 27 (p. 213)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Philip K. Dick" (Quotes, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (1974):
All page numbers from the 1993 Vintage trade paperback edition )
“To live is to be hunted.”
— Phillip K. Dick
P
Context: • Chapter 12 (p. 132)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Philip K. Dick" (Quotes, Lies, Inc. (1984): Originally published as The Unteleported Man in 1964, republished with additional material in 1983. Published with further additional material as Lies, Inc. in 1984.
All page numbers from the 2004 Vintage trade paperback edition, )
“The vidphone company let me off the hook.”
— Phillip K. Dick
P
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Philip K. Dick" (Quotes, VALIS (1981):
A novel featuring Dick himself. The title is an acronym for Vast Active Living Intelligence System, Dick's gnostic vision of God.)
“Mental illness is not funny.”
— Phillip K. Dick
P
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Philip K. Dick" (Quotes, VALIS (1981):
A novel featuring Dick himself. The title is an acronym for Vast Active Living Intelligence System, Dick's gnostic vision of God.)
“Madness has its own dynamism. It just goes on.”
— Phillip K. Dick
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