What did Walker Percy mean by: Losing hope is not so bad. There’s something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself. Walker Percy Writer · USA Copy
Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Walker Percy, Diversion, Reading, Wandering, 0 Walker Percy Writer · USA
+ Joy and sadness come by turns. Author, November 7, 2023January 2, 2025, Walker Percy, Cycles, Joy, Sadness, 0 Walker Percy Writer · USA
A novel is what you call something that won’t sell if you call it poems or short stories. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Walker Percy, Literature, marketing, Perception, 0 Walker Percy Writer · USA
Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real? Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Walker Percy, Death, Disaster, Illness, 0 Walker Percy Writer · USA
+ 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
To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Walker Percy, Awareness, Possibility, Search, 0 Walker Percy Writer · USA
Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Walker Percy, Humility, Limitation, Realism, 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
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
