Walker Percy Quotes
Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North.
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When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you can hear sorrow and sadness behind it, and that's what I try to be: multi-layered.
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The Southern borders of Bavaria are being protected by Hungary.
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If the spectrum linking everyday depression to Major Depression sometimes hinders understanding of it, it also offers an opportunity for empathy. Because almost everyone, at some point, experiences feelings of sadness, of hopelessness, of emptiness, not to mention lethargy and irritability.
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My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.
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I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress.
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Camp Southern Ground is a lot more than a camp. It's more of a campus.
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Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.
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It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.
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My mother was a Democrat - southern Democrat, y'all.
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I want to paint something that's gorgeous, something that's perfect. So that it's full of sadness.
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Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.
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I was always the Southern gentleman.
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I grew up sailing in the North Sea.
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I'm still true to my Southern roots.
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Kashmir, the 86,000-square-mile region in India's north, both is and isn't the India of the popular imagination.
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In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.
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It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's such a cliche to say that artists write when they're down, but it's true for me. It's a relief to get out what's eating away at my heart or my soul or my head.
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I got worries by the ton, getting cancer's only one. Over taxed and alimonied, tired of eating fried baloney.
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Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance.
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I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.
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The new, though engaging at times, may often start as offensive to us. The latter is often proof of the worth of this, while in the long run it will receive more recognition, than some, of what we liked so much in the beginning.
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It behoveth the sovereigns of the world may God assist them or the ministers of the earth to take counsel together and to adopt one of the existing languages or a new one to be taught to children in schools throughout the world, and likewise one script. Thus the whole earth will come to be regarded as one country.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North.
