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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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Life
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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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Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected.
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Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?
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If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The exhilaration of a good poem lasts twenty minutes, an hour at most. Unlike the scientist, the artist has reentry problems that are frequent and catastrophic.
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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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Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.
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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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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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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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Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion.
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Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.
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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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If I had the choice of knowing the truth or searching for the truth, I'd take the search.
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