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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
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Novelist
Philosopher
Physician
Writer
Birmingham
Alabama
Away
Real
Love
Friendship
Turn
Worst
Face
Turns
Faces

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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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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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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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If I had the choice of knowing the truth or searching for the truth, I'd take the search.
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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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Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.
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Life is fits and starts, mostly fits.
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Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him.
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Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
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Consciously cultivate the ordinary.
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Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.
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Ooooh, Kate groans, Kate herself now. I'm so afraid. I know. What am I going to do? You mean right now? Yes. We'll go to my car. Then we'll drive down to the French Market and get some coffee. Then we'll go home. Is everything going to be all right? Yes. Tell me. Say it. Everything is going to be all right.
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Why did God make woman so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?
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Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.
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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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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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[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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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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Children notice things first, people later.
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