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

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Walker Percy
Age: 73 †
Born: 1916
Born: May 28
Died: 1990
Died: May 10
Author
Novelist
Philosopher
Physician
Writer
Birmingham
Alabama
Wednesday
Afternoon
Spend
Place
Home
May
Heart

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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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Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.
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For the world is broken, sundered, busted down the middle, self ripped from self and man pasted back together as mythical monster, half angel, half beast, but no man...Some day a man will walk into my office as a ghost or beast or ghost-beast and walk out as a man, which is to say sovereign wanderer, lordly exile, worker and waiter and watcher.
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Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
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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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Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.
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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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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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Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge.
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Consciously cultivate the ordinary.
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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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Maybe there are times when an honest hatred serves us better than love corrupted by sentimentality, meretriciousness, sententiousness, cuteness.
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Why did God make woman so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?
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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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To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.
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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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Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself.
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I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death.
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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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Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected.
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