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" What about—not sex—but love?”

“Love is another name for sex.”

“Like love of country,” Rick said. “Love of music.”

“If it’s love toward a woman or an android imitation, it’s sex. Wake up and face yourself, Deckard. You wanted to go to bed with a female type of android—nothing more, nothing less. I felt that way, on one occasion. When I had just started bounty hunting. Don’t let it get you down; you’ll heal. What’s happened is that you’ve got your order reversed. Don’t kill her—or be present when she’s killed—and then feel physically attracted. Do it the other way.”

Rick stared at him. “Go to bed with her first—”

“—and then kill her,” Phil Resch said succinctly. His grainy, hardened smile remained. "

Philip K. Dick , Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?


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Philip K. Dick quote : What about—not sex—but love?”<br /><br />“Love is another name for sex.”<br /><br />“Like love of country,” Rick said. “Love of music.”<br /><br />“If it’s love toward a woman or an android imitation, it’s sex. Wake up and face yourself, Deckard. You wanted to go to bed with a female type of android—nothing more, nothing less. I felt that way, on one occasion. When I had just started bounty hunting. Don’t let it get you down; you’ll heal. What’s happened is that you’ve got your order reversed. Don’t kill her—or be present when she’s killed—and then feel physically attracted. Do it the other way.”<br /><br />Rick stared at him. “Go to bed with her first—”<br /><br />“—and then kill her,” Phil Resch said succinctly. His grainy, hardened smile remained.