Books Quotes by Robert Anton Wilson

8 Books quotes by Robert Anton Wilson

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Wilson’s mind‑bending style surfaces in these eight brief quotes about books. They act as a quick entry point into his playful, questioning view of literature.

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The novels that get praised in the NY Review of Books aren't worth reading. Ninety-seven percent of science fiction is adolescent rubbish,…

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“Nothing in this book is an attempt to prevent the really resolute misery addicts from continuing their pursuit of frustration and failure.”

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“These ideas can be made more concrete with a parable, which I borrow from John Fowles’s wonderful novel, The Magus. Conchis, the…

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“How do you get free of the damnable books of Romance when everybody else is still living in them?”

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I read everything, including the labels on canned food. I'm a hopeless print addict, a condition alleviated only by daily meditation which…

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Here's to the good Nuns for telling me what books NOT to read!

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Guerrilla ontology The basic technique of all my books . Ontology is the study of being; the guerrilla approach is to so…

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Death makes me realize how deeply I have internalized the agnosticism I preach in all my books. I consider dogmatic belief and…

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Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation…

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The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not appealing to…

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Disobedience was man's Original Virtue.

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In every state of the Union, Fundamentalists still fight to ban all the science they dislike and prosecute all who teach it. To them,…

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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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I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty.

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I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to…

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“Masturbation is not the happiest form of sexuality, but the most advisable for him who wants to be alone and think. I detect the…

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I like pacifists and people who have a heavy emotional identification with deathism and war would probably call me a pacifist, but I am…

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Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

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The most important truths always appear first as blasphemies or obscenities. That's why every great innovator is persecuted. And the sacraments look obscene, too,…

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“When you're dealing with these forces or powers in a philosophic and scientific way, contemplating them from an armchair, that rationalistic approach is useful.…

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“And Spaceship Earth, that glorious and bloody circus, continued its four-billion-year-long spiral orbit about the Sun; the engineering, I must admit, was so exquisite…

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