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I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.
Robert Anton Wilson
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Robert Anton Wilson
Age: 74 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 18
Died: 2007
Died: January 11
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On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
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My early work is politically anarchist fiction, in that I was an anarchist for a long period of time. I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal. Nowadays, I regard myself as a libertarian.
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The things that hinder me are opportunities to learn more and develop further.
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The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside.
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Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.
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History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.
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There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven't noticed already.
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A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.
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If you want to be happy, practise it every day
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I really dread serious people. Especially serious, dogmatic people. I regard them as sort of what Reich called the emotional plague. I regard them as very dangerous.
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My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.
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Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
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The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.
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It is a great privilege to be conscious in this universe. Those who understand, shine like stars.
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Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.
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Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy.
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Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.
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Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.
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Only the madman is absolutely sure.
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The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born.
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