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If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.

Robert M. Pirsig

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Robert M. Pirsig
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 6
Died: 2017
Died: April 24
Autobiographer
Novelist
Philosopher
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Robert Maynard Pirsig
Wall
Week
Pretty
Stare
Morning
Nothingness
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Staring
Getting
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