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Robert Anton Wilson ou RAW, né le 18 janvier 1932 à Brooklyn dans l'État de New York et mort le 11 janvier 2007 à Capitola en Californie, est un écrivain américain. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. janvier 1932 – 11. janvier 2007   •   Autres noms روبرت ويلسون
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Robert Anton Wilson: Citations en anglais

“I used to be an atheist, until I realized I had nothing to shout during blowjobs. "Oh Random Chance! Oh Random Chance!"”

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just doesn't cut it….
DragonCon, 2000
This quote is knowingly or otherwise lifted from Bill Hicks' comedy routine, or vice versa.

“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 that none of the passengers felt any motion at all. Those on the dark side of the ship mostly slept and voyaged into worlds of freedom and fantasy; those on the light side moved about the tasks appointed for them by their rulers, or idled waiting for the next order from above.”

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Robert Anton Wilson livre The Illuminatus! Trilogy

The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975)

“No, they were not exactly automatons, but they did not know what they were doing. They take down a boy’s britches. They stare at his buttocks. They cane him until the buttocks bleed. And they believe this is virtue, because it is done in a school, and it becomes vice only if it is done in a place with a red lantern over the door.”

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The Widow's Son

“Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.”

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The Robert Anton Wilson Website - RAW Thoughts, Robert Anton Wilson, 2016-06-03 http://www.rawilson.com/thoughts.html,

“The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now.”

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rawilson.com website/blog entry (mid 1990s)

“Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.”

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Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati (1977), p. 84

“There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.”

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The Historical Illuminatus as spoken by Sigismundo Celine

“"Elohim," the name for the creative power in Genesis, is a female plural, a fact that generations of learned rabbis and Christian theologians have all explained as merely grammatical convention. The King James and most other Bibles translate it as "God," but if you take the grammar literally, it seems to mean "goddesses." Al Shaddai, god of battles, appears later, and YHWH, mispronounced Jehovah, later still.”

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Genesis, p. 197
Everything Is Under Control (1998)

“You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it.”

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Introduction, p. 16
Everything Is Under Control (1998)

“All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense.”

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Nature's God This is a statement derived from one in the Principia Discordia

“Everybody who has ever worked for a corporation knows that corporations conspire all the time. Politicians conspire all the time, pot-dealers conspire not to get caught by the narcs, the world is full of conspiracies. Conspiracy is natural primate behavior.”

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The I in the Triangle, speech held at a bookstore in Santa Cruz, California (1990)

“"Mind" is a tool invented by the universe to see itself; but it can never see all of itself, for much the same reason that you can’t see your own back (without mirrors).”

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Robert Anton Wilson livre Prometheus Rising

Source: Prometheus Rising (1983), Ch. 14 : The Meta Programming Circuit, p. 224

“The current rampages of territorial-emotional pugnacity sweeping this planet are not just another civilization failing … They are the birth-pangs of a cosmic Prometheus rising out of the long nightmare of domesticated primate history.”

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Robert Anton Wilson livre Prometheus Rising

Source: Prometheus Rising (1983), Ch. 5 : Dickens & Joyce : The Two-Circuit Dialectic, p. 90

“Every national border in Europe," El Eswad added ironically, "marks the place where two gangs of bandits got too exhausted to kill each other anymore and signed a treaty. Patriotism is the delusion that one of these gangs of bandits is better than all the others.”

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The Earth Will Shake: The History of the Early Illuminati (The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles Vol. 1) (1982), p. 100

“Mind and its contents are functionally identical: My wife only exists, for me, in my mind. Not being a solipsist, I recognize the converse: I only exist, for her, in her mind. Lest the reader exclaim, like Byron of Wordworth, "I wish he would explain his explanation!", let us try it this way: If I am so fortunate as to be listening to the Hammerklavier sonata, the only correct answer, if you ask me suddenly, "Who are you?" would be to hum the Hammerklavier. For, with music of that quality, one is hypnotized into rapt attention: there is no division between "me" and "my experience".”

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Robert Anton Wilson livre Prometheus Rising

Source: Prometheus Rising (1983), Ch. 14 : The Meta-Programming Circuit, p. 219

“The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.”

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Robert Anton Wilson livre The Illuminatus! Trilogy

The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975)

“The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by an assembly of three or four hundred imbeciles.”

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The Historical Illuminatus as spoken by M. Gabriel Sartines

“Why does the sexual appetite cause so much unspeakable joy and irrational misery, so much suicidal and homicidal madness, and so much absurd theological ranting? Because every sexual choice is going to play a role in determining the temperament and talents of the next generation, and of all future generations who will inherit the earth from us. To be simple about it for once, a single friendly fuck can fill a continent with morons or geniuses in only a few thousand years.”

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The Historical Illuminatus as spoken by Sigismundo Celine