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He thought he was a good poet but he was not. He thought books could tell him how to live but they couldn't. He was a serious but dazed reader. He read Dante and Shakespeare and Nietzsche and Freud. He read modern poetry and books on psychiatry. He had taken a degree in English, couldn't, decided to farm, bought a goat farm, managed a Confederate museum in a cave on his property, wrote poetry, went broke, became a golf pro. (Walker Percy)
Why it is that of all the billions and billions of strange objects in the Cosmos - novas, quasars, pulsars, black holes - you are beyond doubt the strangest ... View quote
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Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself. View quote
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Why did God make woman so beautiful and man with such a loving heart? View quote
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Walker Percy

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Occupation: American Writer
Born: May 28, 1916
Died: May 10, 1990
Quotes count: 54
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