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Walker Percy - The Thanatos Syndrome (1987)

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Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected.

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Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.

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But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and write about the ones we can make sense of.

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Walker Percy

Born: May 28, 1916
Died: May 10, 1990 (aged 73)
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