Walker Percy

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Notable quotes

“Do you know where tenderness always leads? ... To the gas chamber.”
— The Thanatos Syndrome (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1987), ch. 2, sec. 6, p. 128. Compare: Flannery O'Connor, Introduction to A Memoir of Mary Ann Long (1964), p. 19
“There is no fashion so absurd, even grotesque, that it cannot be adopted, given two things: the authority of the fashion-setter (Dior, Jackie Onassis) and the vacuity or noughtness of the consumer.”
— Chapter 2, section 2: The Self as Nought (II).

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