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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?
Walker Percy
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Walker Percy
Age: 73 †
Born: 1916
Born: May 28
Died: 1990
Died: May 10
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Birmingham
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The enduring is something which must be accounted for. One cannot simply shrug it off.
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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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A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.
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Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected.
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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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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their face away.
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