10 ordspråk av Walker Percy

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Walker Percy föddes den May 28th 1916 och dog den 10 May 1990 - who wrote of the New South transformed by industry and technology.
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 Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive.

 I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free.

 Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

 The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

 We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away

 What she didn't understand, she being spiritual and seeing religion as spirit, was that it took religion to save me from the spirit world, from orbiting the earth like Lucifer and the angels, that it took nothing less than touching the thread off the misty interstates and eating Christ himself to make me mortal man again and let me inhabit my own flesh and love her in the morning.

 Why it is that of all the billions and billions of strange objects in the Cosmos-novas, quasars, pulsars, black holes-you are beyond doubt the strangest?

 You can get all A's and flunk life.

 You can get all A's and still flunk life.

 You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.



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