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Home may be where the heart is but it's no place to spend Wednesday afternoon.

Walker Percy

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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
Home
May
Heart
Wednesday
Afternoon
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Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.
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My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.
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Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.
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What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms us from the past, declares an amnesty, brackets and sets aside the old puzzles. Sing a new song. Start a new life, get a girl, look into her shadowy eyes, smile.
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I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free.
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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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Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.
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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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Why did God make woman so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?
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The enduring is something which must be accounted for. One cannot simply shrug it off.
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Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him.
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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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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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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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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.
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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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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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Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion.
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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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