"Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion."

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Source : Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer”, p.33, Open Road Media

Walker Percy

#Wander Quotes #Diversion Quotes

“[Shoji] Hamada seldom drew an exact drawing of a pot that he was going to make.”
“Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible.”
“New Yorkers have this special spot in Central Park, where they do this 5K run, the minute the clock strikes twelve. I ran once, and I'll never do that again, either. But, it's awesome to watch those people run. It's such a great environment and place to be.”
“I immediately cotton on to the fact that intelligence thus lightly used, and one-upmanshipishly displayed, is a birthmark giving me a two-coloured face, is a goitre, a hump on the back, webbed toes, and makes me stink like the night-man. Once again I learn what I knew on my very first day at Kensington School, and have carelessly forgotten, that it is more intelligent to appear less intelligent. I henceforth rein myself in, and publicly give back only what I have been given - fifty-six for seven- eights.”
“Today I live in the suburbs, in a neighborhood [that's not] too bad.”

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“There is something very quiet and reserved and pessimistic about Obama's temperament that is deeply un-American. There are those people who claim, "Oh, he wasn't born here" - all that is nonsense.”

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“I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.”
“She was my sacred angel that I could never violate. Reira was my sanctuary. I needed something solid like that in this dirty, disappointing world.”

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