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Luke Rhinehart Biography

Luke Rhinehart (born George Cockcroft November 15, 1932) is the American writer of nine novels, most notably The Dice Man, a 1971 novel about a psychotherapist who casts dice in place of making decisions.

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There is something fundamentally wrong with the way we normally live our lives and we'd sort of like to find out what it is.

Fundamentally, Like, Lives, Our Lives, Way

Men must attempt to develop in themselves and their children liberation from the sense of self. Men must be free from boundaries, patterns and consistencies in order to be free to think, feel and create in new ways.

Children, Consistencies, Men, Thinking, Ways

I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life. In literature this refusal is called romanticism; in psychology, neurosis.

Accept, Limitations, Literature, Psychology, Romanticism, Self

Give up all hope, all illusion, all desire. . I've tried. I've tried and still I desire, I still desire not to desire and hope to be without hope and have the illusion I can be without illusions. . Give up, I say. Give up everything, including the desire to be saved.

Desire, Everything, Giving Up, Illusion, Including, Saved

Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.

Islands, Life, Ocean, Seen

To change man, the audience by which he judges himself must be changed. A man is defined by his audience: by the people, institutions, authors, magazines, movie heroes, philosophers by whom he pictures himself being cheered and booed. Major psychological disturbances, 'identity crises', are caused when an individual begins to change the audience for whom he plays: from parents to peers; from peers to the works of Albert Camus; from the Bible to Hugh Hefner.

Camus, Change, Hero, Institutions, Men, Play

Patterns are prostitution to the patter of parents.

Parent, Parents, Patter, Patterns, Prostitution

There have been 15 or 16 screenplays over the years, including one by me, but none of them has gotten made because Paramount is a huge studio. The Dice Man is an anti-establishment cult novel and you don't normally make studio films from such dark comedy material.

Dark, Men, Novel, Paramount, Years

Why did children seem to be so often spontaneous, joy-filled and concentrated while adults seemed controlled, anxiety-filled and diffused? It was the Goddam sense of having a self.

Children, Goddam, Joy, Self, Spontaneous

We are blind to the worlds within us, waiting to be born.

Blind, Waiting, World, Worlds

Man must become comfortable in flowing from one role to another, one set of values to another, one life to another. Men must be free from boundaries, patterns and consistencies in order to be free to think, feel and create in new ways. Men have admired Prometheus and Mars too long; our God must become Proteus.

God, Men, Order, Think, Thinking

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