“The second I left my old life's cowpath, I discovered I didn't need a drink. It became possible to stand still in… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“Today is my thirtieth birthday and I sit on the ocean wave in the schoolyard and wait for Kate and think of… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“He means that he hopes to find himself a girl, the rarest of rare pieces, and live the life of Rudolfo on… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“Unlike him I had been unable to escape into the simple complexities of science. All he had to do was solve the… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
How did it happen that now he could see everything so clearly. Something had given him leave to live in the present.… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“he believed that there is no end to the mischief and hatred which men harbor deep in themselves and unknown to themselves… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Suppose you ask God for a miracle and God says yes, very well. How do you live the rest of your life? — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“The peculiar predicament of the present-day self surely came to pass as a consequence of the disappointment of the high expectations of… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“All he had to do was solve the mystery of the universe, which may be difficult but is not as difficult as… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“but we know in the South that the real purpose of manners is to make life easier for everyone, easier both to… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“Can good come from evil? Have you ever considered the possibility that one might undertake a search not for God but for… — 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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