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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
by Robert Pirsig
A Favorite of 3, Read by 67, Owned by 61, Reviewed by 1, Quotes 2
Arguably one of the most profoundly important essays ever written on the nature and significance of "quality" and definitely a necessary anodyne to the consequences of a modern world pathologically obsessed with quantity. Although set as a story of a...(more)
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Quotes from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

The truth knocks on the door and you say "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Robert Pirsig
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They're not too busy to be courteous. The hereness and nowness of things is something they know all about. It's the others, the ones who moved to the city years ago and their lost offspring who have all but forgotten it. The discovery was a real find.

Robert Pirsig
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