But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable. — 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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
![“[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.” quote by Walker Percy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3f1/walker-percy-1958_action_in-art-you-are-telling-the-reader-or-the_116938.jpg)
