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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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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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It is not a bad thing to settle for the Little Way, not the big search for the big happiness but the sad little happiness of drinks and kisses, a good little car and a warm deep thigh.
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Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition.
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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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Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself.
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Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.
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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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Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
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What is the nature of the search? you ask. Really it is very simple, at least for a fellow like me so simple that it is easily overlooked. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. This morning, for example, I felt as if I had come to myself on a strange island.
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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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In this world, goodness is destined to be defeated.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their face away.
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Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him.
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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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It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to test the air, has caught a whiff of something lethal.
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I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death.
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Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?
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Why has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat.
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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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