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Inspirational Quotes by Walker Percy
- Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself.
- The enduring is something which must be accounted for. One cannot simply shrug it off.
- This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground.
- To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.
- Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.
- Suppose you ask God for a miracle and God says yes, very well. How do you live the rest of your life?
- Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.
- Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.
- Life is fits and starts, mostly fits.
- Classes? Categories? Was that what we had come to?
- Children notice things first, people later.
- Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge.
- Consciously cultivate the ordinary.
- It is not merely the truth of science that makes it beautiful, but its simplicity.
- You can get all A's and still flunk life.
- Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion.
- Why did God make women so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?
- Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
- Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself.
- Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.
- Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North.
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- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
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