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

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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
Worst
Face
Turns
Faces
Away
Real
Love
Friendship
Turn

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Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge.
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The enduring is something which must be accounted for. One cannot simply shrug it off.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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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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Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself.
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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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Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North.
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I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death.
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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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Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.
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Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition.
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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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This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground.
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Children notice things first, people later.
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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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