A Quote by Walker Percy

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

Walker Percy

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Before Diversion Now Read Seriously Sit Wander

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Walker Percy
American - Writer
May 28, 1916 - May 10, 1990

Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid means of escaping from it. But diversion amuses us, and leads us unconsciously to death.

Blaise Pascal

Anyone who does not see the vanity of the world is very vain himself. So who does not see it, apart from young people whose lives are all noise, diversions, and thoughts for the future? But take away their diversion and you will see them bored to extinction. Then they feel their nullity without recognizing it, for nothing could be more wretched than to be intolerably depressed as soon as one is reduced to introspection with no means of diversion.

Blaise Pascal

Each generation is smarter than the generation before, and they need total diversion and encouragement and things to think about.

Martha Stewart

A little before noon I sent orders to all my batteries to open fire through the streets or at any points where the troops were seen about the city, as a diversion in favor of Jackson.

James Longstreet

God is not a diversion.

Desmond Tutu

Violence is not a catalyst but a diversion.

Joseph Conrad

My career actually started in the second grade as class clown. That's no joke. I was always making people laugh, and it was really to mask a learning disability... When it came time for me to read out loud, I would crack jokes or create a diversion.