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Life is fits and starts, mostly fits.

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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
Fits
Mostly
Starts
Fit
Life

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Why has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat.
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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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In this world, goodness is destined to be defeated.
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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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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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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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To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.
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It makes people nervous for one to step out of one's role.
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Free people have a serious problem with place, being in a place, using up a place, deciding which new place to rotate to. Americans ricochet around the United States like billiard balls.
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Joy and sadness come by turns.
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I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death.
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Why is it that no other species but man gets bored? Under the circumstances in which a man gets bored, a dog goes to sleep.
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The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and rage which, in an individual patient, could be characterized as dementia.
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Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition.
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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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Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.
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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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Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.
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In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.
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You can get all A's and still flunk life.
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