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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
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Novelist
Philosopher
Physician
Writer
Birmingham
Alabama
Mostly
Starts
Fit
Life
Fits

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Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.
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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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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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A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.
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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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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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Children notice things first, people later.
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To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.
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Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North.
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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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Home may be where the heart is but it's no place to spend Wednesday afternoon.
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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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Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.
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Consciously cultivate the ordinary.
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Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?
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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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Classes? Categories? Was that what we had come to?
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You can get all A's and still flunk life.
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Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition.
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What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms us from the past, declares an amnesty, brackets and sets aside the old puzzles. Sing a new song. Start a new life, get a girl, look into her shadowy eyes, smile.
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