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What's new? is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow.
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
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
Robert Maynard Pirsig
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We always condemn most in others, he thought, that which we most fear in ourselves.
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New York has always been going to hell but somehow it never gets there.
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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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An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality.
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Care and Quality are internal and external aspects of the same thing. A person who sees Quality and feels it as he works is a person who cares. A person who cares about what he sees and does is a person who’s bound to have some characteristic of quality.
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I really am a recluse. I just enjoy watching the wind blow through the trees. In America someone who sits around and does that is at the bottom of the ladder, but in Japan, say, someone who goes up into the mountains is accorded great respect. I guess I am somewhere in between. I enjoy reclusion: it clears my mind.
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Physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance.
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A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself.
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We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.
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I think now the trace of egotism may have been the beginning of all his troubles
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Quality... you know what it is, yet you don't know what it is.
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