"Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is……" — Robert M. Pirsig

"Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic."

— Robert M. Pirsig

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135 Quotes by Robert M. Pirsig

Robert M. Pirsig has 135 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.
It's paradoxical that where people are most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities of the East and West, the…
How are you going to teach virtue if you teach the relativity of all ethical ideas? Virtue, if it implies…
When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's…
When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to…
The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.
Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.
Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen struggle for billions of…
I think present-day reason is an analogue of the flat earth of the medieval period. If you go too far…
The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit…
A person filled with gumption doesn’t sit about stewing about things. He’s at the front of the train of his…
Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with Quality.

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More Classic Quotes

This quote is filed under Classic Quotes, one of 815 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a… — Paul Auster
Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. — Dean Acheson
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. — Jane Austen
Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out… — Russell Baker
I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a… — Drew Barrymore
I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my… — Mario Batali
Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. — Alan Bennett
A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again. — W. E. B. Du Bois
I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach… — Mitch Albom
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money.… — Louisa May Alcott
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. — Italo Calvino

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