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Walker Percy Quotes

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For some time now the impression has been growing upon me that everyone is dead. It happens when I speak to people. In the middle of a sentence it will come over me: yes, beyond a doubt this is death. There is little to do but groan and make an excuse and slip away as quickly as one can  (Walker Percy Quotes) If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The exhilaration of a good poem lasts twenty minutes, an hour at most. Unlike the scientist, the artist has reentry problems that are frequent and catastrophic  (Walker Percy Quotes) Losing hope is not so bad. There’s something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself  (Walker Percy Quotes) Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise  (Walker Percy Quotes) There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you  (Walker Percy Quotes) Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know  (Walker Percy Quotes) Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether I am a liberal or a conservative, I am nevertheless enlivened by the hatred which one bears the other. In fact, this hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world  (Walker Percy Quotes) We love those who know the worst of us and don’t turn their face away  (Walker Percy Quotes) A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious  (Walker Percy Quotes) In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man  (Walker Percy Quotes) Why is it that no other species but man gets bored? Under the circumstances in which a man gets bored, a dog goes to sleep  (Walker Percy Quotes) Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone’s finger as long as one pleases, but looking into the eyes of another person is, if prolonged past a second, a perilous affair?  (Walker Percy Quotes) Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?  (Walker Percy Quotes)
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