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Walker Percy quotes: In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished. In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.
Walker Percy quotes: Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself. Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself.
Walker Percy quotes: Joy and sadness come by turns. Joy and sadness come by turns.
Walker Percy quotes: Genius lies not in making the great discoveries, but in seeing the connections between the smaller ones ... Genius lies not in making the great discoveries, but in seeing the connections between the smaller ones ...
Walker Percy quotes: Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense. Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.
Walker Percy quotes: We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away. We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
Walker Percy quotes: New Orleans may be too seductive for a writer. New Orleans may be too seductive for a writer.
Walker Percy quotes: Consciously cultivate the ordinary. Consciously cultivate the ordinary.
Walker Percy quotes: A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories. A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.
Walker Percy quotes: People usually told him the same joke two or three times. People usually told him the same joke two or three times.
Walker Percy quotes: Fiction doesn't tell us something we don't know, it tells us something we know but don't know that we know. Fiction doesn't tell us something we don't know, it tells us something we know but don't know that we know.
Walker Percy quotes: Pascal told only half the story. He said man was a thinking reed. What man is, is a thinking reed and a walking genital. Pascal told only half the story. He said man was a thinking reed. What man is, is a thinking reed and a walking genital.
Walker Percy quotes: A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious. A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.
Walker Percy quotes: The self can be as desperately stranded in the transcendence of theory as in the immanence of consumption. The self can be as desperately stranded in the transcendence of theory as in the immanence of consumption.
Walker Percy quotes: But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable. But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.
Walker Percy quotes: If I had the choice of knowing the truth or searching for the truth, I'd take the search. If I had the choice of knowing the truth or searching for the truth, I'd take the search.
Walker Percy quotes: I have nothing else to offer you but my own happiness. Please say that it, at least, measures up, that it is a proper sort of unhappiness. I have nothing else to offer you but my own happiness. Please say that it, at least, measures up, that it is a proper sort of unhappiness.
Walker Percy quotes: To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.
Walker Percy quotes: Lost in the mystery of finding myself alive. Lost in the mystery of finding myself alive.
Walker Percy quotes: There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you. There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you.
Walker Percy quotes: It is difficult for gods to walk the earth without taking the forms of beasts. It is difficult for gods to walk the earth without taking the forms of beasts.
Walker Percy quotes: Why has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat. Why has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat.
Walker Percy quotes: Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature? Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?
Walker Percy quotes: God, if you recall, did not warn his people against dirty books. He warned them against high places. God, if you recall, did not warn his people against dirty books. He warned them against high places.
Walker Percy quotes: Soap shining beauty. Soap shining beauty.
Walker Percy quotes: How strange to think that you cannot pass along the discovery. How strange to think that you cannot pass along the discovery.
Walker Percy quotes: As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair. As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair.
Walker Percy quotes: Suppose you ask God for a miracle and God says yes, very well. How do you live the rest of your life? Suppose you ask God for a miracle and God says yes, very well. How do you live the rest of your life?
Walker Percy quotes: Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past. Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
Walker Percy quotes: A great scientist once said that genius consists not in making great discoveries but in seeing the connection between small discoveries. A great scientist once said that genius consists not in making great discoveries but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.
Walker Percy quotes: All he had to do was solve the mystery of the universe, which may be difficult but is not as difficult as living an ordinary life. All he had to do was solve the mystery of the universe, which may be difficult but is not as difficult as living an ordinary life.
Walker Percy quotes: Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him. Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.
Walker Percy quotes: At that time the only treatment of angelism, that is, excessive abstraction of the self from itself, was recovery of the self through ordeal. At that time the only treatment of angelism, that is, excessive abstraction of the self from itself, was recovery of the self through ordeal.
Walker Percy quotes: What Descartes did not know: no such isolated individual as he described can be conscious. What Descartes did not know: no such isolated individual as he described can be conscious.
Walker Percy quotes: Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral. Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.
Walker Percy quotes: Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust. Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.
Walker Percy quotes: You can get all A's and still flunk life. You can get all A's and still flunk life.
Walker Percy quotes: Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected. Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected.
Walker Percy quotes: Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself. Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself.
Walker Percy quotes: Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him. Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him.
Walker Percy quotes: Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious. Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.
Walker Percy quotes: I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death. I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death.
Walker Percy quotes: It is not merely the truth of science that makes it beautiful, but its simplicity. It is not merely the truth of science that makes it beautiful, but its simplicity.
Walker Percy quotes: Children notice things first, people later. Children notice things first, people later.
Walker Percy quotes: Nowadays when a good-looking woman flirts with me, however idly, I guffaw like some ruddy English lord, haw haw, har har, harr harr. Nowadays when a good-looking woman flirts with me, however idly, I guffaw like some ruddy English lord, haw haw, har har, harr harr.
Walker Percy quotes: I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free. I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free.
Walker Percy quotes: I believe in God and the whole business but I love women best, music and science next, whiskey next, God fourth, and my fellowman hardly at all. I believe in God and the whole business but I love women best, music and science next, whiskey next, God fourth, and my fellowman hardly at all.
Walker Percy quotes: Have you noticed that the narrower the view the more you can see? For the first time I understand how old ladies can sit on their porches for years. Have you noticed that the narrower the view the more you can see? For the first time I understand how old ladies can sit on their porches for years.
Walker Percy quotes: Firing the sunset gun Firing the sunset gun
Walker Percy quotes: Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion. Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion.
Walker Percy quotes: Maybe there are times when an honest hatred serves us better than love corrupted by sentimentality, meretriciousness, sententiousness, cuteness. Maybe there are times when an honest hatred serves us better than love corrupted by sentimentality, meretriciousness, sententiousness, cuteness.
Walker Percy quotes: Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge. Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge.
Walker Percy quotes: Just because Jimmy Swaggart believes in God doesn't mean that God does not exist. Just because Jimmy Swaggart believes in God doesn't mean that God does not exist.
Walker Percy quotes: Classes? Categories? Was that what we had come to? Classes? Categories? Was that what we had come to?
Walker Percy quotes: Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise. Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.
Walker Percy quotes: Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history. Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history.
Walker Percy quotes: The enduring is something which must be accounted for. One cannot simply shrug it off. The enduring is something which must be accounted for. One cannot simply shrug it off.
Walker Percy quotes: People who are ordinarily understood to dislike each other or at least to be indifferent toward each other discover that they have much in common. People who are ordinarily understood to dislike each other or at least to be indifferent toward each other discover that they have much in common.
Walker Percy quotes: I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair? I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?
Walker Percy quotes: Why did God make women so beautiful and man with such a loving heart? Why did God make women so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?
Walker Percy quotes: It makes people nervous for one to step out of one's role. It makes people nervous for one to step out of one's role.
Walker Percy quotes: Life is fits and starts, mostly fits. Life is fits and starts, mostly fits.
Walker Percy quotes: When these long telephone silences come, it is a sure sign that love is over. When these long telephone silences come, it is a sure sign that love is over.
Walker Percy quotes: This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground. This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground.
Walker Percy quotes: 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 ... 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 ...
Walker Percy quotes: I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the way things are. I cannot tolerate this age. I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the way things are. I cannot tolerate this age.
Walker Percy quotes: My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted. My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.
Walker Percy quotes: The origin of consciousness is the initiation of the sign-user into the world of signs by a sign-giver. The origin of consciousness is the initiation of the sign-user into the world of signs by a sign-giver.
Walker Percy quotes: This is another thing about the world which is upside-down: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive. Down This is another thing about the world which is upside-down: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive. Down
Walker Percy quotes: A writer worth his salt is probably better off in an adversarial relation with the U.S. Senate. A writer worth his salt is probably better off in an adversarial relation with the U.S. Senate.
Walker Percy quotes: This miserable trick the romantic plays upon himself: of setting just beyond his reach the very thing he prizes. This miserable trick the romantic plays upon himself: of setting just beyond his reach the very thing he prizes.
Walker Percy quotes: What nuns don't realize is that they look better in nun clothes than in J. C. Penney pantsuits. What nuns don't realize is that they look better in nun clothes than in J. C. Penney pantsuits.
Walker Percy quotes: Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North. Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North.
Walker Percy quotes: Misery misery son of a bitch of all miseries. Misery misery son of a bitch of all miseries.
Walker Percy quotes: A great culture is recognizable through its artists and its saints and not by its GNP. A great culture is recognizable through its artists and its saints and not by its GNP.
Walker Percy quotes: Evening is the best time in Gentilly. There are not so many trees ... Evening is the best time in Gentilly. There are not so many trees ...
Walker Percy quotes: 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 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.
Walker Percy quotes: Why is it that no other species but man gets bored? Under the circumstances in which a man gets bored, a dog goes to sleep. Why is it that no other species but man gets bored? Under the circumstances in which a man gets bored, a dog goes to sleep.
Walker Percy quotes: At night the years come back and perch around my bed like ghosts. At night the years come back and perch around my bed like ghosts.

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