Why did God make woman so beautiful and man with such a loving heart? — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Why is it that no other species but man gets bored? Under the circumstances in which a man gets bored, a dog… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Like many young men in the South, he had trouble ruling out the possible. They are not like an immigrant's son in… — 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,… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives: the time one climbed the Parthenon at sunrise, the summer… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Why did God make women so beautiful and man with such a loving heart? — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature? — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Lord, grant that my work increase knowledge and help other men. Failing that, Lord, grant that it will not lead to man’s… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
The conviction: I will not tolerate this age. The freedom: the freedom to act on my conviction. And I will act. No… — 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)
