“But the expectation of the self, to be informed in its nothingness--if only I can get out of this old place and… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“Polarities of the 'authentic' vs. the 'inauthentic' are easily discernible in recreational modes. The criteria of authenticity are not necessarily objective but… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“At that time the only treatment of angelism, that is, excessive abstraction of the self from itself, was recovery of the self… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
One of the peculiar ironies of being a human self in the Cosmos: A stranger approaching you in the street will in… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“It, the self, is in fact the only alien in the entire Cosmos. The modern objective consciousness will go to any length… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“The self has no sign of itself... For me, certain signifiers fit you, and not others. For me, all signifiers fit me,… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“An organism exists in its environment in only one mode, that of an open system responding to those segments of its environment… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“Why do people often feel bad in good environments and good in bad environments? Why did Mother Teresta think that affluent Westerners… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“The earth-self observing the Cosmos and trying to understand the Cosmos by scientific principles from which its self is excluded is, beyond… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“...the self can be as desperately stranded in the transcendence of theory as in the immanence of consumption.” — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“...the self in the twentieth century is a voracious nought which expands like the feeding vacuole of an amoeba seeking to nourish… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“Do you know what he told me after lying under a cliff for thirty six hours with two inches of his femur sticking out?… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The real wonder is not that the Cosmos is now seen as wonderful but that it is not. Despite its inconceivable vastness, it is… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“Ours is the only civilization in history which has enshrined mediocrity as its national ideal. Others have been corrupt, but leave it to us… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
[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… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
For the world is broken, sundered, busted down the middle, self ripped from self and man pasted back together as mythical monster, half angel,… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“For me, all signifiers fit me, one as well as another. I am rascal, hero, craven, brave, treacherous, loyal, at once the secret hero… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“But the expectation of the self, to be informed in its nothingness--if only I can get out of this old place and into the… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“A variant of the amnesic-plot device is the inadvertent return of the amnesiac to home territory, where he is welcomed by a lovely woman,… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
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