"In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished."

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Source : Walker Percy (2011). “Signposts in a Strange Land”, p.161, Open Road Media

Walker Percy

#Faith Quotes #Lonely Quotes #Inspiration Quotes

“She could have a Grammy I'd still treat her ***** like a nominee.”
“It was pleasant to me to get a letter from you the other day. Perhaps I should have found it pleasanter if I had been able to decipher it. I don't think that I mastered anything beyond the date (which I knew) and the signature (which I guessed at). There's a singular and a perpetual charm in a letter of yours; it never grows old, it never loses its novelty .... Other letters are read and thrown away and forgotten, but yours are kept forever - unread. One of them will last a reasonable man a lifetime.”
“Inertia accounts for two-thirds of marriages. But love accounts for the other third.”
“Surveys show that surveys never lie.”

Source : Natalie Angier (1999). “Woman: An Intimate Geography”, p.386, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“You are eating the sea, that's it, only the sensation of a gulp of sea water has been wafted out of it by some sorcery, and you are on the verge of remembering you don't know what, mermaids or the sudden smell of kelp on the ebb tide or a poem you read once, something connected with the flavor of life itself...”

Source : Eleanor Clark (2014). “The Oysters of Locmariaquer”, p.6, Harper Collins
“I give a lot of myself, so it will be good to release some heavy energy, and I know yoga deals with energy. So I definitely want to get into that.”
“The treatments themselves do not 'cure' the condition, they simply restore the body's self-healing ability.”
“I sincerely believe that we not only have the right to know what is good and what is evil; we have the duty to acquire that knowledge if we hope to assume responsibility for our own lives and those of our children. Only by knowing the truth can we be set free.”

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