You can get all A’s and still flunk life.
About Walker Percy
Walker Percy, OblSBwas an American writer whose interests included philosophy and semiotics. Percy is noted for his philosophical novels set in and around New Orleans; his first, The Moviegoer, won the National Book Award for Fiction.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
Southern philosophical novelist
You can get all A’s and still flunk life.
Southern philosophical novelist
Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive.
Southern philosophical novelist
You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
Southern philosophical novelist
We love those who know the worst of us and don’t turn their faces away.
Southern philosophical novelist
The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
Southern philosophical novelist