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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
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Birmingham
Alabama
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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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Why did God make woman so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?
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Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North.
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Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge.
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Consciously cultivate the ordinary.
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Maybe there are times when an honest hatred serves us better than love corrupted by sentimentality, meretriciousness, sententiousness, cuteness.
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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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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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Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.
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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 has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat.
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A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.
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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 have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When it does at last dawn on a man that you really want to hear about his business, the look that comes over his face is something to see.
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Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?
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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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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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Life is fits and starts, mostly fits.
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Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.
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