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• I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death.

  Walker Percy

  Sex, Writing, Thinking

  Walker Percy (2011). “Signposts in a Strange Land”, p.94, Open Road Media

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• Life is fits and starts, mostly fits.

  Walker Percy

  Life Is, Fit

  Walker Percy (2011). “The Thanatos Syndrome”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• 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

  Son, Men, Desire

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• As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair.

  Walker Percy

  People, Suffering, Despair

  "The Moviegoer". Book by Walker Percy, 1961.

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• What is the nature of the search? you ask. Really it is very simple, at least for a fellow like me; so simple that it is easily overlooked. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. This morning, for example, I felt as if I had come to myself on a strange island.

  Walker Percy

  Morning, Simple, Islands

  "The Moviegoer: A Novel".

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• 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

  Hatred, Library, World

  Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer”, p.45, Open Road Media

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• Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.

  Walker Percy

  Desire, Fields, Remains

  Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer”, p.98, Open Road Media

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• 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

  Uncles, Writing, Wind

  Walker Percy, Lewis A. Lawson, Victor A. Kramer (1993). “More Conversations with Walker Percy”, p.223, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Children notice things first, people later.

  Walker Percy

  Children, People, Firsts

  Walker Percy (2011). “Signposts in a Strange Land”, p.38, Open Road Media

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• 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

  Artist, Air, Tests

  Walker Percy (2011). “Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book”, p.64, Open Road Media

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• The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives.

  Walker Percy

  Memorable, People, Treasure

  The Moviegoer ch. 1 (1961)

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• I am not ashamed to use the word class. I will also plead guilty to another charge. The charge is that people belonging to my class think they're better than other people. You're damn right we're better. We're better because we do not shirk our obligations either to ourselves or to others. . . .we live by our lights, we die by our lights, and whoever the high gods may be, we'll look them in the eye without apology.

  Walker Percy

  Eye, Apology, Thinking

  Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer”, p.96, Open Road Media

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• Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.

  Walker Percy

  Loss, Risk, Gains

  Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer”, p.54, Open Road Media

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• But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and write about the ones we can make sense of.

  Walker Percy

  Writing, Physicians, Medical

  Walker Percy (2011). “The Thanatos Syndrome”, p.2, Open Road Media

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