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I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?

Walker Percy

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Walker Percy
Age: 73 †
Born: 1916
Born: May 28
Died: 1990
Died: May 10
Author
Novelist
Philosopher
Physician
Writer
Birmingham
Alabama
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Crawfish
Beer
Despair
Drink

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Why has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat.
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In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.
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Ooooh, Kate groans, Kate herself now. I'm so afraid. I know. What am I going to do? You mean right now? Yes. We'll go to my car. Then we'll drive down to the French Market and get some coffee. Then we'll go home. Is everything going to be all right? Yes. Tell me. Say it. Everything is going to be all right.
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Home may be where the heart is but it's no place to spend Wednesday afternoon.
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Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself.
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As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair.
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Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?
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Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone's finger as long as one pleases, but looking into the eyes of another person is, if prolonged past a second, a perilous affair?
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their face away.
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But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.
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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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Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.
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But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and write about the ones we can make sense of.
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Children notice things first, people later.
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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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Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.
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Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.
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