Big Happiness Quotes by Walker Percy

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Walker Percy has 85 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.
• I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One…
• Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself.
• A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.
• In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.
• In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do…
• What is the nature of the search? you ask. Really it is very simple, at least for a fellow like me; so…
• Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place is not certified for him. More than likely he will live…
• It is not a bad thing to settle for the Little Way, not the big search for the big happiness but the…
• The enduring is something which must be accounted for. One cannot simply shrug it off.
• A repetition is the re-enactment of past experience toward the end of isolating the time segment which has lapsed in order that…
• As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair.

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