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Walker Percy

“but we know in the South that the real purpose of manners is to make life easier for everyone, easier both to keep to oneself and to avoid the uneasy commerce of offense and even insult. Either one shakes hands with someone or one ignores him or one kills him. What else is there?”

Walker Percy, Lancelot
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Lancelot Lancelot by Walker Percy
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