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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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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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Classes? Categories? Was that what we had come to?
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Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself.
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Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.
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It makes people nervous for one to step out of one's role.
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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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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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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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The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and rage which, in an individual patient, could be characterized as dementia.
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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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Joy and sadness come by turns.
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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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Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him.
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Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion.
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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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[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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This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground.
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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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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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Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.
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