“[In art] you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something he already knows but which he doesn't quite know that he knows, so that in the action of communication he experiences a recognition, a feeling that he has been there before, a shock of recognition.” KnowsHas BeensArtFeelingsActionCommunicationReaderRecognitionShockListenersViewers Author:Walker Percy
“Like many young men in the South, he had trouble ruling out the possible. They are not like an immigrant's son in Passaic who desires to become a dentist and that is that. Southerners have trouble ruling out the possible. What happens to a... man to whom all things seem possible and every course of action open? Nothing of course.” MenSeemsHappensActionYoungDesireCoursesTroubleSonAll ThingsSouthYoung ManImmigrantsRulingDentistSoutherner Author:Walker Percy
“The conviction: I will not tolerate this age. The freedom: the freedom to act on my conviction. And I will act. No one else has both the conviction and the freedom. Many agree with me, have the conviction, but will not act. Some act, assassinate, bomb, burn, etc., but they are the crazies. Crazy acts by crazy people. But what if one, sober, reasonable, and honorable man should act, and act with perfect sobriety, reason, and honor? Then you have the beginning of a new age. We shall start a new order of things.” PeopleIfsMenShouldReasonAgeActionOrderPerfectCrazyHonorAgreeConvictionBombsReasonableEtcWhat IfTolerateHonorableSoberNew AgeSobrietyCrazy PeopleHonorable Man Book:Lancelot Source: Lancelot
