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Something Quotes by Walker Percy
- What is the nature of the search? you ask. Really it is very simple, at least for a fellow like me; so simple that it…
- The enduring is something which must be accounted for. One cannot simply shrug it off.
- To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.
- A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.
- The mystery lies in the here and now. The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself? As you get older you begin to…
- I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern writer, you might be thought of…
- The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility…
- Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
- It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to test the air,…
- 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.
- I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When it does at…
- How did it happen that now he could see everything so clearly. Something had given him leave to live in the present. Not once in…
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- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- People always follow the crowd. Be brave, Dare to do something different. Let the crowd follow you. Instead you follow them. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle