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Robert M. Pirsig has 128 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.
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It's paradoxical that where people are most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities of the East and West, the loneliness is…
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How are you going to teach virtue if you teach the relativity of all ethical ideas? Virtue, if it implies anything at…
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When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which…
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When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.
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The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.
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Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.
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Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to…
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I think present-day reason is an analogue of the flat earth of the medieval period. If you go too far beyond it…
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The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit together somehow,…
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A person filled with gumption doesn’t sit about stewing about things. He’s at the front of the train of his own awareness,…
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Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with Quality.
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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and…
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I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
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There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
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What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless.…
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I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.
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If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.
— Vance Packard
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The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
— Sean O'Casey
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And it is true that life lacks the monotony of museums. There come days which seem worthy of being framed, but they…
— Italo Svevo
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Were you to realize the forms minute and glorious, which invisibly play their parts in service around you, there could be no…
— Flower A. Newhouse
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Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind of security,…
— Paul Theroux
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