Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson
An American author, philosopher, psychologist, and essayist, he co-authored The Illuminatus! Trilogy with Robert Shea. His other popular works include Schrodinger's Cat (a novel) and Wilhelm Reich in Hell (a play).
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth18 January 1932
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
sports silly games
It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans.
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When one has praised Turgenev, however, for the beauty of his character and the beautiful truth of his art, one remembers that he, too, was human and therefore less than perfect. His chief failing was, perhaps, that of all the great artists, he was the most lacking in exuberance. That is why he began to be scorned in a world which rated exuberance higher than beauty or love or pity.
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There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
too-much likeable humans
Most human beings are quite likable if you don't see too much of them.
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Yes, I've been in love, but I guess I'm too involved with myself and my work. I think I'm in love with my work, and I'm in love with the people I work with.
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When you're playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies.
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We get pretty close to full each night.
We're so afraid to lose the audience. Let the audience go.
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When I was 12 years old, I went to Natchitoches, La.; it was summer vacation with my family. We visited a plantation, Melrose. And I met an Afro-American woman who was a painter. I already had some idea of what I wanted to do in life, and one of the things that interested me was painting.
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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.
human
Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them.
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It is in games that many men discover their paradise.
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If you slow things down, you notice things you hadn't seen before.
work
My work has always dealt with a kind of space that allows one to daydream.