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Walker Percy quotes

American Writer May 28, 1916 – May 10, 1990

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During my last year in college I discovered that I was picking up the mannerisms of Akim Tamiroff, the only useful thing, in fact, that I learned in the entire four years. Walker Percy
Walker Percy quote: "I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?"
I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair? Walker Percy
Walker Percy quote: "Misery misery son of a bitch of all miseries."
Misery misery son of a bitch of all miseries. Walker Percy
This is the perennial danger which besets semiotics: what with man being preeminently the sign-using creature, and what with man using signs in everything that he does, semiotics runs the risk of being about everything and hence about nothing. Walker Percy
Walker Percy quote: "How strange to think that you cannot pass along the discovery."
How strange to think that you cannot pass along the discovery. Walker Percy
Tell me something. Why did I have to know the truth about Margot and know it with absolute certainty? Or rather why, knowing the truth, did I have to know more, prove more, see? Does one need to know more, ever more and more, in order that one put off acting on it or maybe even not act at all? Walker Percy
Walker Percy quote: "I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the..."
I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the way things are. I cannot tolerate this age. Walker Percy
Walker Percy quote: "To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto..."
To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair. Walker Percy
Walker Percy quote: "the origin of consciousness is the initiation of the sign-user..."
the origin of consciousness is the initiation of the sign-user into the world of signs by a sign-giver. Walker Percy
Walker Percy quote: "Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down..."
Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral. Walker Percy
Walker Percy quote: "What Descartes did not know: no such isolated individual as he..."
What Descartes did not know: no such isolated individual as he described can be conscious. Walker Percy
Walker Percy quote: "Not to be onto something is to be in despair."
Not to be onto something is to be in despair. Walker Percy
Walker Percy quote: "Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us..."
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
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, has caught a whiff of something lethal. Walker Percy

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