"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."

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Source : Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer”, p.45, Open Road Media

Walker Percy

#People Quotes #Doubt Quotes #Growing Quotes

“If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture? Well, look at the drugs we use. Except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in.”
“No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.”

Source : "The St. Cloud Manifesto" (Impressions from a ballroom, New Year's Eve in St. Cloud) by Edvard Munch, 1889.
“What the hell do you want to work for somebody else for? Work for yourself!”
“What we need is a theology of salvation that begins and ends with a recognition of every person's hunger for glory.”
“In ignorance I am something; in understanding I am nothing, in love I am everything.”
“He who can listen to the music in the midst of noise can achieve great things.”

Source : Outlook India, August 19, 2002.
“I die in almost every film I've been in.”
“Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one's ability and likelihood for success.”

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