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Lord, grant that my work increase knowledge and help other men. Failing that, Lord, grant that it will not lead to man’s destruction. Failing that, Lord, grant that my article in Brain be published before the destruction takes place.
Walker Percy
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Walker Percy
Age: 73 †
Born: 1916
Born: May 28
Died: 1990
Died: May 10
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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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Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone's finger as long as one pleases, but looking into the eyes of another person is, if prolonged past a second, a perilous affair?
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Children notice things first, people later.
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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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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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Classes? Categories? Was that what we had come to?
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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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To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.
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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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Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself.
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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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It is not merely the truth of science that makes it beautiful, but its simplicity.
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It is not a bad thing to settle for the Little Way, not the big search for the big happiness but the sad little happiness of drinks and kisses, a good little car and a warm deep thigh.
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The enduring is something which must be accounted for. One cannot simply shrug it off.
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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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You can get all A's and still flunk life.
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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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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.
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I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death.
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