Walker Percy Quotes
Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion.
Quotes to Explore
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.
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I never read about photography.
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I write romance because I love to read romance.
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My mother taught me to read.
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I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
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I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Not all those who wander are lost.
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I love to read, and I love Martina Cole.
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For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before.
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I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.
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I would read all day if I could.
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You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.
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I tend to read non-fiction.
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I read French much better than I speak.
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I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.
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Don't classify me, read me.
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If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
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We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world, void of national bias, race, hate, and religious prejudice. There should be no indulgence in undue eulogy of the Negro. The case of the Negro is well taken care of when it is shown how he has far influenced the development of civilization.
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My success, I feel like, is credit - credit for a good job. I haven't even gotten a Grammy, yet I've already decided I want an Emmy.
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Living each day as if it were your last doesn't mean your last day of retirement on a remote island. It means to live fully, authentically and spontaneously with nothing being held back.
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'Black girl magic' means, to me, just getting out there and doing it every day and not letting anything get you down.
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Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion.
