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You go up the mountaintop and all you're gonna get is a great big heavy stone tablet handed to you with a bunch of rules on it.
Robert M. Pirsig
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Robert M. Pirsig
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 6
Died: 2017
Died: April 24
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
Robert Maynard Pirsig
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The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.
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(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.
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