# Quote — Philip K. Dick, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

> “We all make mistakes,” the cab said piously.
>
> “But some of us,” Barney said, “make fatal ones.” First about our loved ones, our wife and children, and then about our employer, he said to himself.
>
> The cab hummed on.
>
> And then, he said to himself, we make one last one. About our whole life, summing it all up. Whether to take a job with Eldritch or go into the service. And whichever we choose we can know this:
>
> It was the wrong alternative.

- Author: [Philip K. Dick](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick.md)
- Book: [The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick/the-three-stigmata-of-palmer-eldritch.md)
- Page: 119
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick#The_Three_Stigmata_of_Palmer_Eldritch_(1965)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick/the-three-stigmata-of-palmer-eldritch/we-all-make

## More from this book

> The time, then, had come for him to poison himself so that an economic monopoly could be kept alive, a sprawling, interplan empire from which he now derived nothing.

p. 161 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick/the-three-stigmata-of-palmer-eldritch/the-time-then.md)

> So that’s that, Barney said to himself. I violated Rule One of career-oriented functioning: never tell your superior something he doesn’t want to hear.

p. 60 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick/the-three-stigmata-of-palmer-eldritch/so-thats-that.md)

> It takes a certain amount of courage, he thought, to face yourself and say with candor, I’m rotten. I’ve done evil and I will again. It was no accident; it emanated from the true, authentic me.

p. 112 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick/the-three-stigmata-of-palmer-eldritch/it-takes-a-certain.md)