Quotes by Walker Percy, The Moviegoer

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Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether I am a liberal — Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
Last summer I picked up a yellow scrap of newspaper and read of a Biloxi election in 1948, and in it I caught the smell — Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
Lonnie's monotonous speech gives him an advantage, the same advantage foreigners have: his words are not worn out. It is — Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
People who are ordinarily understood to dislike each other or at least to be indifferent toward each other discover that — Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
Every place of arrival should have a booth set up and manned by an ordinary person whose task it is to greet strangers a — Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground. — Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything — Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
...this miserable trick the romantic plays upon himself: of setting just beyond his reach the very thing he prizes. — Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
What is the nature of the search? you ask. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everyday — Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in — Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
I am consoled only to see that I was not mistaken: Chicago is just as I remembered it. I was here twenty five years ago. — Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real? — Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in t — Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
How much better it would be if they weren't so damn understanding--if they kicked me out of the house. To find yourself — Walker Percy, The Moviegoer