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
The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
For some time now the impression has been growing upon me that everyone is dead. It happens when I speak to people.… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Free people have a serious problem with place, being in a place, using up a place, deciding which new place to rotate… — 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
Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real? I remember at the time of… — 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
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
I am not ashamed to use the word class. I will also plead guilty to another charge. The charge is that people… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real? — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground. — 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
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
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