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Walker Percy Inspirational Quotes (78)

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Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
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The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives.
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Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected.
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Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?
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What nuns don't realize is that they look better in nun clothes than J.C. Penney pantsuits.
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Why has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat.
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[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.
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Suppose you ask God for a miracle and God says yes, very well. How do you live the rest of your life?
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Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.
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A repetition is the re-enactment of past experience toward the end of isolating the time segment which has lapsed in order that it, the lapsed time, can be savored of itself and without the usual adulteration of events that clog time like peanuts in brittle.
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Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.
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Lord, grant that my work increase knowledge and help other men. Failing that, Lord, grant that it will not lead to man’s destruction. Failing that, Lord, grant that my article in Brain be published before the destruction takes place.
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Life is fits and starts, mostly fits.
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Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North.
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Free people have a serious problem with place, being in a place, using up a place, deciding which new place to rotate to. Americans ricochet around the United States like billiard balls.
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Children notice things first, people later.
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This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground.
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In this world, goodness is destined to be defeated.
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A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.
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If I had the choice of knowing the truth or searching for the truth, I'd take the search.
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Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.
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Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history.
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I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free.
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The enduring is something which must be accounted for. One cannot simply shrug it off.
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