8 Quotes by Walker Percy about men


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    For the world is broken, sundered, busted down the middle, self ripped from self and man pasted back together as mythical monster, half angel, half beast, but no man...Some day a man will walk into my office as a ghost or beast or ghost-beast and walk out as a man, which is to say sovereign wanderer, lordly exile, worker and waiter and watcher.

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    I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When it does at last dawn on a man that you really want to hear about his business, the look that comes over his face is something to see.

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    Why is it that no other species but man gets bored? Under the circumstances in which a man gets bored, a dog goes to sleep.

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    The conviction: I will not tolerate this age. The freedom: the freedom to act on my conviction. And I will act. No one else has both the conviction and the freedom. Many agree with me, have the conviction, but will not act. Some act, assassinate, bomb, burn, etc., but they are the crazies. Crazy acts by crazy people. But what if one, sober, reasonable, and honorable man should act, and act with perfect sobriety, reason, and honor? Then you have the beginning of a new age. We shall start a new order of things.

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    There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you.

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    Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?

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    Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.

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