Quotes by Walker Percy

Walker Percy

[In art] you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something he already knows but which he doesn’t quite know that he knows, so that in the action of communication he experiences a recognition, a feeling that he has been there before, a shock of recognition.

Art

Communication

Feelings

Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history.

Children

Earth

People

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

Despair

People

Suffering

Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion.

Diversion

Wander

Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.

Guarantees

Obnoxious

Uneducated

Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself.

Blessing

Boredom

Self

But there is much to be said for giving up … grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.

Ambition

Giving Up

Ordinary

Classes? Categories? Was that what we had come to?

For the world is broken, sundered, busted down the middle, self ripped from self and man pasted back together as mythical monster, half angel, half beast, but no man…Some day a man will walk into my office as a ghost or beast or ghost-beast and walk out as a man, which is to say sovereign wanderer, lordly exile, worker and waiter and watcher.

Angel

Men

Self

Free people have a serious problem with place, being in a place, using up a place, deciding which new place to rotate to. Americans ricochet around the United States like billiard balls.

Balls

People

United States

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Becoming

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Blessing

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Quotes by Walker Percy

Walker Percy

[In art] you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something he already knows but which he doesn’t quite know that he knows, so that in the action of communication he experiences a recognition, a feeling that he has been there before, a shock of recognition.

Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history.

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

Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion.

Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.

Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself.

But there is much to be said for giving up … grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.

Classes? Categories? Was that what we had come to?

Free people have a serious problem with place, being in a place, using up a place, deciding which new place to rotate to. Americans ricochet around the United States like billiard balls.

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