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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I'm so southern Ohio. And Cleveland is a different world, you know?
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I figured out that letting ‘the world’ hurt me served a few functions extremely well: It provided me with a kind of nurturing I didn’t otherwise know how to attract, I couldn’t be pinned with total responsibility, and it provided physical pain, a reason to cry that others could understand. So much easier than trying to explain all the accumulated rage and numbness and sadness.
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I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for the unexpected tiny thing that always makes or breaks a story.
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Composing is improvisation slowed down.
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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.
