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Children notice things first, people later.

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
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Later
Firsts
First
Children
Things
People

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Why did God make woman so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?
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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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If I had the choice of knowing the truth or searching for the truth, I'd take the search.
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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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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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Why has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat.
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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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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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Classes? Categories? Was that what we had come to?
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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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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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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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The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives.
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I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?
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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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Life is fits and starts, mostly fits.
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To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.
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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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