“Everyone has a belief system, B. S., the trick is to learn not to take anyone's B. S. too seriously, especially your own.”

—  Robert Anton Wilson, book Reality Is What You Can Get Away With

Reality Is What You Can Get Away With (1993, 1996)

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American author and polymath 1932–2007

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