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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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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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Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
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In this world, goodness is destined to be defeated.
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You can get all A's and still flunk life.
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Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge.
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Why is it that no other species but man gets bored? Under the circumstances in which a man gets bored, a dog goes to sleep.
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It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to test the air, has caught a whiff of something lethal.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their face away.
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Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition.
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Classes? Categories? Was that what we had come to?
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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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Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.
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For some time now the impression has been growing upon me that everyone is dead. It happens when I speak to people. In the middle of a sentence it will come over me: yes, beyond a doubt this is death. There is little to do but groan and make an excuse and slip away as quickly as one can.
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In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.
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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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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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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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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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It is not merely the truth of science that makes it beautiful, but its simplicity.
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