"The man assumes the role of the loner, the thinker and the searching spirit who calls the privileged and the powerful to task. The power of one was the courage to remain separate, th think through the truth and not be beguiled by convention or the plausible arguments of those who expect to maintain power, whatever the cost."

-- Bryce Courtenay

#Powerful Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“What can I say? Chicks dig the mask.”
“I've never been ambitious.”
“The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.”
“I've inherited the worst of each parent. I have my father's hypochondria and lack of concentration. I have his amorality. I have everything bad that he had. Then I have my mother's surly, pill-like, complaining, whining attitude.”
“For some time now the impression has been growing upon me that everyone is dead. It happens when I speak to people. In the middle of a sentence it will come over me: yes, beyond a doubt this is death. There is little to do but groan and make an excuse and slip away as quickly as one can.”

Source : Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer”, p.45, Open Road Media
“We always plan too much and always think too little. We resent a call to thinking and hate unfamiliar argument that does not tally with what we already believe or would like to believe.”
“I never understood where the satisfaction is when you're missing the pleasure of conquest.”
“Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure.”

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