You can get all A's and still flunk life.
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What she didn't understand, she being spiritual and seeing religion as spirit, was that it took religion to save me from the spirit world, from orbiting the earth like Lucifer and the angels, that it took nothing less than touching the thread off the misty interstates and eating Christ himself to make me mortal man again and let me inhabit my own flesh and love her in the morning.Walker Percy
Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive.
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You can get all A's and flunk life.
Walker Percy
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