Once they got into the idea of seeing directly for themselves they also saw there was no limit to the amount they could say. It was a confidence building assignment too, because what they wrote, even though seemingly trivial, was nevertheless their own thing, not a mimicking of someone else’s.
Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
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