The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and rage which, in an individual patient, could be characterized as dementia.
Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him. - Walker Percy
Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.
- Walker Percy
Why has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat. - Walker Percy
Why has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat.
You can get all A's and still flunk life. - Walker Percy
You can get all A's and still flunk life.
In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished. - Walker Percy
In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.
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
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.
Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge. - Walker Percy
Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge.
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 wi… - Walker Percy
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 wi…
How did it happen that now he could see everything so clearly. Something had given him leave to live in the present. Not once in his entire life had … - Walker Percy
How did it happen that now he could see everything so clearly. Something had given him leave to live in the present. Not once in his entire life had …
I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair? - Walker Percy
I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?
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