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Walker Percy Quotes

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You can get all A’s and still flunk life  (Walker Percy Quotes) Why did God make women so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?  (Walker Percy Quotes) Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust  (Walker Percy Quotes) Consciously cultivate the ordinary  (Walker Percy Quotes) Why did God make women so beautiful and man with such a loving heart  (Walker Percy Quotes) But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.  (Walker Percy Quotes) Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral  (Walker Percy Quotes) Suppose you ask God for a miracle and God says yes, very well. How do you live the rest of your life?  (Walker Percy Quotes) This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground  (Walker Percy Quotes) It is not a bad thing to settle for the Little Way, not the big search for the big happiness but the sad little happiness of drinks and kisses, a good little car and a warm deep thigh  (Walker Percy Quotes) Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North  (Walker Percy Quotes) Home may be where the heart is but it’s no place to spend Wednesday afternoon  (Walker Percy Quotes) Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him  (Walker Percy Quotes) Free people have a serious problem with place, being in a place, using up a place, deciding which new place to rotate to. Americans ricochet around the United States like billiard balls  (Walker Percy Quotes) If I had the choice of knowing the truth or searching for the truth, I’d take the search  (Walker Percy Quotes) 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 as someone who writes about a picturesque local scene like Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Gone With the Wind, something like that  (Walker Percy Quotes) Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?  (Walker Percy Quotes) Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history.  (Walker Percy Quotes) It is not merely the truth of science that makes it beautiful, but its simplicity  (Walker Percy Quotes) Life is fits and starts, mostly fits  (Walker Percy Quotes) Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious  (Walker Percy Quotes) Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries  (Walker Percy Quotes) To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something  (Walker Percy Quotes) It makes people nervous for one to step out of one’s role  (Walker Percy Quotes) Joy and sadness come by turns  (Walker Percy Quotes) Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition  (Walker Percy Quotes) You can get all A's and still flunk life  (Walker Percy Quotes) Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself  (Walker Percy Quotes) Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past  (Walker Percy Quotes) I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death  (Walker Percy Quotes)
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