Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“What is the nature of the search? you ask. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“Why do people often feel bad in good environments and good in bad environments? Why did Mother Teresa think that affluent Westerners… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
What is the nature of the search? you ask. Really it is very simple, at least for a fellow like me; so… — 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
“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
What she didn't understand, she being spiritual and seeing religion as spirit, was that it took religion to save me from the… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“Much of current speculation about the nature of ETIs--what level of technology have you achieved?, etc.--is misguided. The first question an earthling… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
What is the nature of the search? you ask. Really it is very simple, at least for a fellow like me; so… — 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
“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)
