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"As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair."
Walker PercyChristians talk about the horror of sin, but they have overlooked some — Walker Percy
"Christians talk about the horror of sin, but they have overlooked something. They keep talking as if everyone were a great sinner, when the truth is that nowadays one is hardly up to it. There is very little sin in the depths of the malaise. The highest moment of a malaisians life can be the moment when he manages to sin like a proper human (Look at us, Binx — my vagabond friends as good as cried out to me — were sinning! Were succeeding! Were human after all!)."
Walker Percy
Walker Percy
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Walker Percy, OblSB was 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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