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Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected.
Walker Percy
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Walker Percy
Age: 73 †
Born: 1916
Born: May 28
Died: 1990
Died: May 10
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I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern writer, you might be thought of as someone who writes about a picturesque local scene like Uncle Tom's Cabin, Gone With the Wind, something like that.
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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in 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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Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.
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Home may be where the heart is but it's no place to spend Wednesday afternoon.
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You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
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Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.
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Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself.
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There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you.
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Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.
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I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When it does at last dawn on a man that you really want to hear about his business, the look that comes over his face is something to see.
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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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Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.
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Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.
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Consciously cultivate the ordinary.
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In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.
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For the world is broken, sundered, busted down the middle, self ripped from self and man pasted back together as mythical monster, half angel, half beast, but no man...Some day a man will walk into my office as a ghost or beast or ghost-beast and walk out as a man, which is to say sovereign wanderer, lordly exile, worker and waiter and watcher.
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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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Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself.
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