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Book cover for Tales from the Gas Station: Volume One (Tales from the Gas Station, #1)
But as long as I’m telling my story, I might as well get that nasty detail out of the way as early as possible, lest you make the mistake of getting too attached.
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Robert M. Pirsig
“Insanity on the other hand is an intellectual pattern. It may have biological causes but it has no physical or biological reality. No scientific instrument can be produced in court to show who is insane and who is sane. There's nothing about insanity that conforms to any scientific law of the universe. The scientific laws of the universe are invented by sanity. There's no way by which sanity, using the instruments of its own creation, can measure that which is outside of itself and its creations. Insanity isn't an 'object' of observation. It's an alteration of observation itself. There's no such thing as a 'disease' of patterns of intellect. There's only heresy. And that's what insanity really is.”
Robert M. Pirsig, Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals

Robert M. Pirsig
“To define something is to subordinate it to a tangle of intellectual relationships. And when you do that you destroy real understanding.”
Robert M. Pirsig, Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals

Haruki Murakami
“Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body falling loose, shaking free of the world of reality. Rain has the power to hypnotize.”
Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

Robert M. Pirsig
“The most sinister thing about the fall of the Roman Empire was that the people who conquered it never understood that they had done so. They paralyzed the patterns of Roman social structure to a point where everybody just forgot what that structure was. Taxes became uncollectible. Armies composed of hired barbarians stopped receiving pay. Everything just lapsed. The patterns of civilization were forgotten, and a Dark Age settled in.”
Robert M. Pirsig, Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals

Robert M. Pirsig
“The man who suffers a heart attack and is taken off the train at New Rochelle has had all his static patterns shattered, he can’t find them, and in that moment only Dynamic Quality is available to him. That is why he gazes at his own hand with a sense of wonder and delight.”
Robert M. Pirsig, Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals

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