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In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.

Walker Percy

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Walker Percy
Age: 73 †
Born: 1916
Born: May 28
Died: 1990
Died: May 10
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Birmingham
Alabama
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