I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When it does at last dawn on a man that you really want to hear about his business, the look that comes over his face is something to see. Walker Percy More Quotes by Walker Percy More Quotes From Walker Percy The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives. Walker Percy treasure memorable people Why did God make woman so beautiful and man with such a loving heart? Walker Percy heart beautiful men Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives: the time one climbed the Parthenon at sunrise, the summer night one met a lonely girl in Central Park and achieved with her a sweet and natural relationship, as they say in books. I too once met a girl in Central Park, but it is not much to remember. What I remember is the time John Wayne killed three men with a carbine as he was falling to the dusty street in Stagecoach, and the time the kitten found Orson Welles in the doorway in The Third Man. Walker Percy girl lonely summer Not to be onto something is to be in despair. Walker Percy despair I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death. Walker Percy writing sex thinking It is not merely the truth of science that makes it beautiful, but its simplicity. Walker Percy simplicity beautiful science They all think any minute I'm going to commit suicide. What a joke. The truth of course is the exact opposite: suicide is the only thing that keeps me alive. Whenever everything else fails, all I have to do is consider suicide and in two seconds I'm as cheerful as a nitwit. But if I could not kill myself -- ah then, I would. I can do without nembutal or murder mysteries but not without suicide. Walker Percy suicide opposites thinking This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground. Walker Percy sky america people To become aware of the possiblity of the search is to be onto something. Walker Percy We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away. Walker Percy 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. Walker Percy great you man age
