“Absence of Quality is the essence of squareness.”
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.”
"Getting on with It" (p.103)
There's a Country in My Cellar (1990)
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