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Walker Percy
Age: 73 †
Born: 1916
Born: May 28
Died: 1990
Died: May 10
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Philosopher
Physician
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Birmingham
Alabama
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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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There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you.
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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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Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone's finger as long as one pleases, but looking into the eyes of another person is, if prolonged past a second, a perilous affair?
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Life is fits and starts, mostly fits.
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You can get all A's and still flunk life.
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In this world, goodness is destined to be defeated.
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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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If I had the choice of knowing the truth or searching for the truth, I'd take the search.
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I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death.
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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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Why did God make woman so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?
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Ooooh, Kate groans, Kate herself now. I'm so afraid. I know. What am I going to do? You mean right now? Yes. We'll go to my car. Then we'll drive down to the French Market and get some coffee. Then we'll go home. Is everything going to be all right? Yes. Tell me. Say it. Everything is going to be all right.
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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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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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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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Suppose you ask God for a miracle and God says yes, very well. How do you live the rest of your life?
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Joy and sadness come by turns.
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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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It makes people nervous for one to step out of one's role.
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