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In this world, goodness is destined to be defeated.
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
Alabama
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What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms us from the past, declares an amnesty, brackets and sets aside the old puzzles. Sing a new song. Start a new life, get a girl, look into her shadowy eyes, smile.
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Like many young men in the South, he had trouble ruling out the possible. They are not like an immigrant's son in Passaic who desires to become a dentist and that is that. Southerners have trouble ruling out the possible. What happens to a... man to whom all things seem possible and every course of action open? Nothing of course.
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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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If I had the choice of knowing the truth or searching for the truth, I'd take the search.
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Why did God make woman so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?
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Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected.
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My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.
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[In art] you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something he already knows but which he doesn't quite know that he knows, so that in the action of communication he experiences a recognition, a feeling that he has been there before, a shock of recognition.
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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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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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Why has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat.
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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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A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.
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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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Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.
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Free people have a serious problem with place, being in a place, using up a place, deciding which new place to rotate to. Americans ricochet around the United States like billiard balls.
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In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.
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Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
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