Walker Percy - Love in the Ruins (1971)

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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their face away.

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For the world is broken, sundered, busted down the middle, self ripped from self and man pasted back together as mythical monster, half angel, half beast, but no man...Some day a man will walk into my office as a ghost or beast or ghost-beast and walk out as a man, which is to say sovereign wanderer, lordly exile, worker and waiter and watcher.

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Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him.

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Why did God make women so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?

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What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms us from the past, declares an amnesty, brackets and sets aside the old puzzles. Sing a new song. Start a new life, get a girl, look into her shadowy eyes, smile.

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Suppose you ask God for a miracle and God says yes, very well. How do you live the rest of your life?

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