Quotes by Robert M. Pirsig

"Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions."

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"Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity."

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"We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do."

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"The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind. The motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon."

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"If you run from technology, it will chase you."

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