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When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him. ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#alive #author #before #characters #does

Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die! ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#born #character #created #creation #death

I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#destination #epiphany #i #i always #liked

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#completely #even #others #presence

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#door #go #go away #goes #i

It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#door #go #go away #goes #i

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#give #menu #metaphysics #page #restaurant

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#been #best #go #good #hindsight

The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#already #arrived #know #only #simple

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing. ↗

— Camille Pissarro

#beautiful things #blessed #humble #nothing #other