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Suppose you ask God for a miracle and God says yes, very well. How do you live the rest of your life?

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
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Live
Wells
Well
Life
Suppose
Miracle
Rest
Says

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Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history.
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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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Why did God make woman so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?
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Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.
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I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?
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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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Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.
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The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives.
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In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.
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Why has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat.
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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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Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge.
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A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.
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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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If I had the choice of knowing the truth or searching for the truth, I'd take the search.
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I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death.
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I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern writer, you might be thought of as someone who writes about a picturesque local scene like Uncle Tom's Cabin, Gone With the Wind, something like that.
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A repetition is the re-enactment of past experience toward the end of isolating the time segment which has lapsed in order that it, the lapsed time, can be savored of itself and without the usual adulteration of events that clog time like peanuts in brittle.
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