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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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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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Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion.
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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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The enduring is something which must be accounted for. One cannot simply shrug it off.
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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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To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.
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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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Consciously cultivate the ordinary.
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You can get all A's and still flunk life.
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Life is fits and starts, mostly fits.
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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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If I had the choice of knowing the truth or searching for the truth, I'd take the search.
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Children notice things first, people later.
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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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Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their face away.
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Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge.
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Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether I am a liberal or a conservative, I am nevertheless enlivened by the hatred which one bears the other. In fact, this hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world.
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