Walker Percy Quotes
She can only believe I am serious in her own fashion of being serious: as an antic sort of seriousness, which is not seriousness at all but despair masquerading as seriousness.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
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I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like.
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Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
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Bitcoin has so much potential, and that's why the believers are trying to facilitate its use as a currency, so people use to buy things and spread it around more.
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The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.
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We're more familiar with what economists call an English auction - prices start low and rise as people bid. However, there is also the Dutch auction, where prices start high and go lower until somebody bites. Movies are sold to the audience via a very slow Dutch auction, where each phase between price drops can last weeks or months.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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How can I convert the enthusiasm of voters into a practical programme of action that meets their desire for economic security and greater prosperity?
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Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
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I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.
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Let us learn from the lessons of September 11 and not wait for a major strike before we act. We must work together - Democrats and Republicans, Congress and the White House, government and the private sector - to make our country a safer and more prosperous place.
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.
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I fed my ego, but not my soul.
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A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.
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Our contemporary analogues to the personal notebook now live on the web - communal, crowdsourced, and shared online in real time. Some of the most interesting and vital work I come across exists only in pixels.
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A computer is a wonderful thing, but it's cold, and what comes out of it is sort of cold.
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True intimacy, the exchange of affection between two people who are not lying, is transforming.
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I grew up in a miniature village in the middle of the countryside in England, quite secluded from the outside world. I was always enamored by the fashion industry.
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She can only believe I am serious in her own fashion of being serious: as an antic sort of seriousness, which is not seriousness at all but despair masquerading as seriousness.
