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Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected.

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Walker Percy
Age: 73 †
Born: 1916
Born: May 28
Died: 1990
Died: May 10
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Novelist
Philosopher
Physician
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Birmingham
Alabama
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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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Maybe there are times when an honest hatred serves us better than love corrupted by sentimentality, meretriciousness, sententiousness, cuteness.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their face away.
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Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.
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A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.
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It makes people nervous for one to step out of one's role.
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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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What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms us from the past, declares an amnesty, brackets and sets aside the old puzzles. Sing a new song. Start a new life, get a girl, look into her shadowy eyes, smile.
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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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My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.
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Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him.
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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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Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.
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Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself.
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Like many young men in the South, he had trouble ruling out the possible. They are not like an immigrant's son in Passaic who desires to become a dentist and that is that. Southerners have trouble ruling out the possible. What happens to a... man to whom all things seem possible and every course of action open? Nothing of course.
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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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Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself.
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Why did God make woman so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?
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I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?
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In this world, goodness is destined to be defeated.
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