Walker Percy Quotes
The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
Quotes to Explore
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We must continue building in all corners of the Land of Israel, with determination and without being confused.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
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I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.
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You just can't control your art in the future.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.
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They're trying to kill me before I'm dead. I come to Quebec to spend some time with my family and they say I'm dead.
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In my book, all manners are is thinking of somebody else.
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What really got me focused on cancer was when my best friend was diagnosed with breast cancer, and even though she was a well-to-do person, I found that her treatment costs were crippling.
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Jim Thorpe is someone I've always loved. He was an Olympic athlete, you know, and a football player from back in the day. I'd love to play him. And then there's a guy called Iceman who was a top hit man for the mob. I would love to play him. Actually, it's sort of in the works, so I hope it goes through.
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Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
