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Life is fits and starts, mostly fits.

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
Life
Fits
Mostly
Starts
Fit

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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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A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their face away.
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Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me only the haters seem alive.
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You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
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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 art] you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something he already knows but which he doesn't quite know that he knows, so that in the action of communication he experiences a recognition, a feeling that he has been there before, a shock of recognition.
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Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected.
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Joy and sadness come by turns.
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For the world is broken, sundered, busted down the middle, self ripped from self and man pasted back together as mythical monster, half angel, half beast, but no man...Some day a man will walk into my office as a ghost or beast or ghost-beast and walk out as a man, which is to say sovereign wanderer, lordly exile, worker and waiter and watcher.
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Consciously cultivate the ordinary.
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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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Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.
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Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him.
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I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the way things are. I cannot tolerate this age.
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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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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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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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My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.
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