What did Walker Percy mean by: A novel is what you call something that won’t sell if you call it poems or short stories. Walker Percy Writer · USA Copy
+ Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust. Author, October 6, 2023January 2, 2025, Walker Percy, Indulgence, Nostalgia, Pleasure, 0 Walker Percy Writer · USA
Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Walker Percy, Connection, Knowledge, Observation, 0 Walker Percy Writer · USA
Why did God make woman so beautiful and man with such a loving heart? Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Walker Percy, Beauty, Gender., Love, 0 Walker Percy Writer · USA
+ My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted. Author, August 29, 2023January 2, 2025, Walker Percy, Determination, Resilience, Support, 0 Walker Percy Writer · USA
We love those who know the worst of us and don’t turn their face away. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Walker Percy, Acceptance, Love, Vulnerability, 0 Walker Percy Writer · USA
Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Walker Percy, Ignorance, Knowledge, Recognition, 0 Walker Percy Writer · USA
Home may be where the heart is but it’s no place to spend Wednesday afternoon. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Walker Percy, Home, Leisure, Time, 0 Walker Percy Writer · USA
+ Not to be onto something is to be in despair. Author, July 29, 2023January 2, 2025, Walker Percy, Despair, Discovery, Knowledge, 0 Walker Percy Writer · USA
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
