Walker Percy Quotes
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
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That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.
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Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.
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The world is a song, but we do not know whether it is a good song because we have nothing to compare it with.
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Lying rumours do not penetrate farther than our ears.
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I don't think working in superheroes is slumming it. I'm proud of this form. I like this. There's nothing inherently masculine about power fantasies. There's nothing inherently masculine about superhero comics. There's nothing inherently masculine about mythology. About science fiction.
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Money is not the reason that people enter teaching.
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We want the people of Japan to know that the people of Hawaii welcome them to the Hawaiian Islands.
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Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.
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I don't think anybody is ever going to call me to play someone who is mousy and demure.
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It's really hard for men to tell other men 'I love you' without putting a 'man' at the end of it. Like, 'I love you... man.' You just can't look at another man and say, 'I love you.'
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The only side effect of too much training is that you get into better shape. There is nothing wrong with that.
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At least 10 ISIS fighters have been caught coming across the border in Texas.
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Straight people say, 'You know you're just gay,' and gay people say, 'You know you're just gay.' There is such a thing as bisexual!
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This entire opus is respectfully dedicated to all those who have loved unconditionally only to have their hearts unanaesthetically ripped out: Base not your joy on the deeds of others, for what is given can be taken away. No hope = No fear.
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Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?
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You know, the big Valbowski is a lot like concrete mix. You know? You just get it a little wet, take a step back, and watch it get ROCK HARD!
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I don't miss anything about the 1960s, not really. I did it. It's like asking, 'Do you miss the fourth grade?' I loved the fourth grade when I was in it, but I don't want to do it again.
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How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?
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The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.
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The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness by reasonable compact in civil society. It was to be, in the first instance, in a considerable degree a government of accommodation as well as a government of Laws. Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.
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Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself.
