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The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives.

Walker Percy

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Walker Percy
Age: 73 †
Born: 1916
Born: May 28
Died: 1990
Died: May 10
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Philosopher
Physician
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Birmingham
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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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The enduring is something which must be accounted for. One cannot simply shrug it off.
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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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Children notice things first, people later.
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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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If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The exhilaration of a good poem lasts twenty minutes, an hour at most. Unlike the scientist, the artist has reentry problems that are frequent and catastrophic.
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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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A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.
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What is the nature of the search? you ask. Really it is very simple, at least for a fellow like me so simple that it is easily overlooked. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. This morning, for example, I felt as if I had come to myself on a strange island.
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To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.
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Life is fits and starts, mostly fits.
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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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This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their face away.
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Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him.
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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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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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It makes people nervous for one to step out of one's role.
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