

“What’s new?” is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow. I would like, instead, to be concerned with the question “What is best?,”
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

“It’s an old split. Like the one between art and art history. One does it and the other talks about how it’s done and the talk about how it’s done never seems to match how one does it.”
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

“the stream of national consciousness moves faster now, and is broader, but it seems to run less deep.”
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

“Overall goals must be scaled down in importance and immediate goals must be scaled up.”
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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