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“What does a man live for but to have a girl, use his mind, practice his trade, drink a drink, read a book, and watch the martins wing it for the Amazon and the three-fingered sassafras turn red in October?
Art Immelmann is right. Man is not made for suffering, night sweats, and morning terrors.”
― Walker Percy, Love in the Ruins

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“Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?”
― Walker Percy, The Moviegoer

tags: death, disaster, real

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“A great scientist once said that genius consists not in making great discoveries but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.”
― Walker Percy

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“I believe in God and the whole business but I love women best, music and science next, whiskey next, God fourth, and my fellowman hardly at all.”
― Walker Percy, Love in the Ruins

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“Christ should leave us. He is too much with us and I don’t like his friends. We have no hope of recovering Christ until Christ leaves us. There is after all something worse than being God-forsaken. It is when God overstays his welcome and takes up with the wrong people.”
― Walker Percy, The Last Gentleman

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