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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
Starts
Fit
Life
Fits
Mostly

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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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What nuns don't realize is that they look better in nun clothes than J.C. Penney pantsuits.
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Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself.
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Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?
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Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him.
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It is not merely the truth of science that makes it beautiful, but its simplicity.
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My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.
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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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Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
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Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.
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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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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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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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Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.
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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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Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.
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Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North.
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Why has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat.
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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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