# Where did this quote come from?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 16, 2021, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-this-quote-come-from/948911 "2021-08-16T05:00:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-this-quote-come-from/948911/1 "2021-08-16T05:00:36Z")

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I was flipping through things to figure out how to block Slurm when I came across the ‘About Me’ section of the profile.

My ‘About Me’ has the following quote: “He love people, all of them, washed and unwashed; he loves his wretched pack of sponging relatives. He shoots people, arrests people, but he doesn’t like it.”

Where does that come from? I have no recollection of where I may have gotten it. In fact, if you google search the whole thing, with the quotation marks the only results returned are SD threads where I posted and it was my signature.

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**Author:** ![FrenchDunadan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frenchdunadan/32/5449_2.png) [@FrenchDunadan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrenchDunadan)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-this-quote-come-from/948911/2 "2021-08-16T06:10:14Z")

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> [@Ike\_Witt](#):
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> He love people, all of them, washed and unwashed; he loves his wretched pack of sponging relatives. He shoots people, arrests people, but he doesn’t like it.”

it comes from a Philip K Dick book:

> **[Now Wait For Last Year](https://books.google.fr/books?id=58BWIwBDPJgC&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&dq=%22he%2Bloves%2Bhis%2Bwretched%2Bpack%2Bof%2Bsponging%2Brelatives.%E2%80%9D&source=bl&ots=9unMyc28yj&sig=ACfU3U0CGSuUJ8Lv1VBPPUebttprFHOqCA&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi56o_M8LTyAhUR1RoKHSHtAmsQ6AF6BAgCEAM#v=onepage&q=%22he%20loves%20his%20wretched%20pack%20of%20sponging%20relatives.%E2%80%9D&f=false)**
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> From Philip K. Dick, the Hugo Award–winning author of The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?—the basis for the film Blade Runner—Now Wait for Last Year is the novel of an Earth caught in an interstellar war and of an...

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**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-this-quote-come-from/948911/3 "2021-08-16T12:39:17Z")

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Huh. That makes sense since I do like PK Dick, but I don’t remember selecting that passage.

How did you find it? Like I said, I had no luck when I searched for it.

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**Author:** ![FrenchDunadan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frenchdunadan/32/5449_2.png) [@FrenchDunadan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrenchDunadan)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-this-quote-come-from/948911/4 "2021-08-16T15:00:49Z")

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I searched only the parts, the second one (wretched pack) leads me to the page.  
Strangely, the others two didn’t.

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**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-this-quote-come-from/948911/5 "2021-08-16T15:52:40Z")

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“I never said most of the things I said.”  
– Yogi Berra