“All he had to do was solve the mystery of the universe, which may be difficult but is not as difficult as… — Walker Percy Life 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 Life Copy Share Image
“You live in a deranged age - more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the… — Walker Percy Confusion Copy Share Image
“People who are ordinarily understood to dislike each other or at least to be indifferent toward each other discover that they have… — 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
Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in… — Walker Percy America 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 Bored Copy Share Image
Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise. — Walker Percy Chance 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 Nature 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… — Walker Percy Burden Copy Share Image
“Am I, in my search, a hundred miles ahead of my fellow Americans or a hundred miles behind them? That is to… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“I have observed that it is no longer possible for one young man to speak unwarily to another not known to him,… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“My own conviction is that semiotics provides an escape from the solipsist prison by its stress on the social origins of language--you… — Walker Percy Faith 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,… — Walker Percy Cosmos 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… — Walker Percy Action 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 Business 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
“At this moment the President is beginning to speak in New Orleans and the Vice-President is mounting the platform at NASA a… — Walker Percy Law and order 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 Action 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… — Walker Percy Beautiful woman Copy Share Image
“My theory is that the purpose of art is to transmit universal truths of a sort, but of a particular sort, that… — Walker Percy Art Copy Share Image
“It's one thing to develop a nostalgia for home while you're boozing with Yankee writers in Martha's Vineyard or being chased by… — Walker Percy Home 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 Disappointment 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 Book Copy Share Image
“During my last year in college I discovered that I was picking up the mannerisms of Akim Tamiroff, the only useful thing,… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We… — Walker Percy Doctor Copy Share Image
“What Descartes did not know: no such isolated individual as he described can be conscious.” — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“A great scientist once said that genius consists not in making great discoveries but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.” — Walker Percy Genius Copy Share Image
Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries. — Walker Percy Connections Copy Share Image
“the origin of consciousness is the initiation of the sign-user into the world of signs by a sign-giver.” — Walker Percy Consciousness Copy Share Image
“I believe in God and the whole business but I love women best, music and science next, whiskey next, God fourth, and… — Walker Percy Believe in god Copy Share Image
But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable. — Walker Percy Ambition Copy Share Image
I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One… — 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
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
Ooooh," Kate groans, Kate herself now. "I'm so afraid." "I know." "What am I going to do?" "You mean right now?" "Yes."… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a… — Walker Percy Artist Copy Share Image
Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone's finger as long… — Walker Percy Affair Copy Share Image
“i had spent four years propped on the front porch of the fraternity house, bemused and dreaming, watching the sun shine through… — Walker Percy Finding myself Copy Share Image
A repetition is the re-enactment of past experience toward the end of isolating the time segment which has lapsed in order that… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
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