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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their face away.

Walker Percy

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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
Love
Friendship
Turn
Worst
Face
Turns
Faces
Away
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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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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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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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I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death.
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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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Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?
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Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him.
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I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?
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Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.
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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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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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One of the peculiar ironies of being a human self in the Cosmos: A stranger approaching you in the street will in a second's glance see you whole, size you up, place you in a way in which you cannot and never will, even though you have spent a lifetime with yourself, live in the Century of the Self, and therefore ought to know yourself best of all.
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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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Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.
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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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What nuns don't realize is that they look better in nun clothes than J.C. Penney pantsuits.
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Why did God make woman so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?
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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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Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected.
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It is not merely the truth of science that makes it beautiful, but its simplicity.
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