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Walker Percy quotes

American Writer May 28, 1916 – May 10, 1990

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Walker Percy quote: "There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look..."
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
For me, certain signifiers fit you, and not others. For me, all signifiers fit me, one as well as another. I am rascal, hero, craven, brave, treacherous, loyal, at once the secret hero and asshole of the Cosmos. Walker Percy
Walker Percy quote: "Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him,..."
Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him. Walker Percy
Walker Percy quote: "Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing..."
Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself. Walker Percy
Is all niceness then or is all buggery? How can a man be forty-five years old and still not know whether all is niceness or buggery? How does one know for sure? Walker Percy
Walker Percy quote: "Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is..."
Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past. Walker Percy
A great scientist once said that genius consists not in making great discoveries but in seeing the connection between small discoveries. Walker Percy
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 last dawn on a man that you really want to hear about his business, the look that comes over his face is something to see. Walker Percy
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 of who he is or what he is doing. Walker Percy
You live in a deranged age - more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing. Walker Percy
Like many young men in the South, he had trouble ruling out the possible. They are not like an immigrant's son in Passaic who desires to become a dentist and that is that. Southerners have trouble ruling out the possible. What happens to a... man to whom all things seem possible and every course of action open? Nothing of course. Walker Percy
They all think any minute I'm going to commit suicide. What a joke. The truth of course is the exact opposite: suicide is the only thing that keeps me alive. Whenever everything else fails, all I have to do is consider suicide and in two seconds I'm as cheerful as a nitwit. But if I could not kill myself -- ah then, I would. I can do without nembutal or murder mysteries but not without suicide. Walker Percy
Walker Percy quote: "Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and..."
Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion. Walker Percy
My own conviction is that semiotics provides an escape from the solipsist prison by its stress on the social origins of language--you have to point to an apple and name it for me before I know there is such a thing--and the existence of a world of apples outside ourselves. Walker Percy
Walker Percy quote: "Pascal told only half the story. He said man was a thinking..."
Pascal told only half the story. He said man was a thinking reed. What man is, is a thinking reed and a walking genital. Walker Percy

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