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Can I have a motorcycle when I get old enough?If you take care of it.What do you have to do?Lot's of things. You've been watching me.Will you show me all of them?Sure.Is it hard?Not if you have the right attitudes. It's having the right attitudes that's hard.Oh.After a while I see he is sitting down again. Then he says, Dad?What?Will I have the right attitudes?I think so, I say. I don't think that will be any problem at all.

Robert M. Pirsig

Can I have a motorcycle when I get old enough?If you take care of it.What do you have to do?Lot's of things. You've been watching me.Will you show me all of them?Sure.Is it hard?Not if you have the right attitudes. It's having the right attitudes that's hard.Oh.After a while I see he is sitting down again. Then he says, Dad?What?Will I have the right attitudes?I think so, I say. I don't think that will be any problem at all.

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About Robert M. Pirsig

Robert Maynard Pirsig (; September 6, 1928 – April 24, 2017) was an American writer and philosopher. He is the author of the philosophical novels Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (1974) and Lila: An Inquiry into Morals (1991), and he co-authored On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Selected and Unpublished Writings (2022) along with his wife and editor, Wendy Pirsig.