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Usual Quotes by Walker Percy
- A repetition is the re-enactment of past experience toward the end of isolating the time segment which has lapsed in order that it, the lapsed…
- You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea…
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- America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. — Georges Clemenceau
- Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour. — Martin Amis
- [Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw… — Thomas Jefferson
- Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine. — Shunryu Suzuki
- The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual. — Ralph Waldo Emerson