American - Philosopher | September 6, 1928 -
People are all at sixes and sevens with each other. They're always quarreling. They never somehow resolve anything.
Robert M. Pirsig
PeopleNeverAlwaysResolveAnything
The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
MountainsYouFindUpBringZen
Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.
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To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
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I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.
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I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.
LifeMindDyingWastedBecause
If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night, and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.
MorningNightWeekYouWallPretty
Up until my first book was published, I had all this potential, people would say, and I screwed up. After it, I could say: 'No, I didn't screw up.'
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The Buddha resides as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain.
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I did not want to write one of those sequels that famous first-book authors get into where everybody says, 'Oh yeah.'
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There's no such thing as morality.
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