"You've got to keep close to your spouse I think, which is a very hard thing to do in America, with everything always pulling you away. I would advise all married people to spend two hours talking to each other. That's my moral for the day."

-- Robert M. Pirsig

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“Anyone who feels that they're in some way plugged into a meaningful, cosmic system is given a greater psychological balance as a result-whether or not they believe it contains a god-like figure at the control panels. Lots of people have this beneficial sense of being plugged into something bigger, even if they're not religious in the going-to-church-regularly sense.”

Source : Robin Skynner, John Cleese (1984). “Families and how to survive them”, Vintage
“The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him.”
“The search for extra-terrestrial life is a failure until that moment when it suddenly becomes a success.”
“The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.”
“There was a great deal of inbreeding between the Indians and the slaves. Genetically speaking, black people are some part black, some part European.”
“It's hard to get along with people. As much as you try to like them and accept them as individuals, it becomes difficult because they keep getting out of line and wasting your time.”
“Don't you love nobody better'n you do yo'self. Do, you'll be dying befo' yo' time is out.”
“To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.”

Source : Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.14, Macmillan

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