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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
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Novelist
Philosopher
Physician
Writer
Birmingham
Alabama
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Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?
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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 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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Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
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I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?
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For some time now the impression has been growing upon me that everyone is dead. It happens when I speak to people. In the middle of a sentence it will come over me: yes, beyond a doubt this is death. There is little to do but groan and make an excuse and slip away as quickly as one can.
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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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Why did God make woman so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?
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It makes people nervous for one to step out of one's role.
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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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Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion.
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Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.
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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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Lord, grant that my work increase knowledge and help other men. Failing that, Lord, grant that it will not lead to man’s destruction. Failing that, Lord, grant that my article in Brain be published before the destruction takes place.
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Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself.
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Like many young men in the South, he had trouble ruling out the possible. They are not like an immigrant's son in Passaic who desires to become a dentist and that is that. Southerners have trouble ruling out the possible. What happens to a... man to whom all things seem possible and every course of action open? Nothing of course.
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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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Classes? Categories? Was that what we had come to?
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My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.
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