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If I had the choice of knowing the truth or searching for the truth, I'd take the search.

Walker Percy

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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
Writer
Birmingham
Alabama
Searching
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Choice
Choices
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Truth
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Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him.
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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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Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected.
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It makes people nervous for one to step out of one's role.
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Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion.
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Lord, grant that my work increase knowledge and help other men. Failing that, Lord, grant that it will not lead to man’s destruction. Failing that, Lord, grant that my article in Brain be published before the destruction takes place.
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Why has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat.
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You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
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Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.
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