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Quote by Robert M. Pirsig

“For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.”

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Robert M. Pirsig

Robert M. Pirsig was an American writer best known for his philosophical novel 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.' This work combines philosophical thinking with travel adventure, exploring the concepts of quality, value, and the meaning of life. more

“...she needed to confirm its presence. Like the keeper of the lighthouse and the prisoner, she regarded it as a mooring, a checkpoint, some stable visual object that assured her that the world was still there; that this was like and not a dream. That she was alive somewhere, inside, which she acknowledged to be true only because a thing she knew intimately was out there, outside of herself.”

World Stills Dream Alive Objects Needed Being True Visuals Prisoner Stable Assured Keepers Lighthouse Checkpoints

Book:Sula

Source: Sula

“He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of waters running away into the open, like some old stone lying on the sand; he looked as if he had become physically what was always at the back of both of their minds-that loneliness which was for both of them the truth about things.”

Ifs Mind Running Lying Water Loneliness Waste Stones Sand Running Away Lighthouse

Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at me.”

Ifs Moments Moving Remarkable Glances Lighthouse

Book:The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion

Source: The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion