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Walker Percy
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1916
- Died
- 1990
- Works
- 60
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 17
- Total plays
- 33
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using
<b>lme4</b>
· 2015 · cited 73,113x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,368x
- Mixed effects models and extensions in ecology with R
· 2009 · cited 12,579x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,429x
- A safe operating space for humanity
· 2009 · cited 9,426x
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Quotes
- “Do you know where tenderness always leads? ... To the gas chamber.”
- “Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive. (2.9).”
- “I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free. (2.12).”
- “She refers to a phenomenon of moviegoing which I have called certification. Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place is not certified for him. More than likely he will live there sadly and the emptiness which is inside him will expand until it evacuates the entire neighborhood. But if he sees a movie which shows his very neighborhood, it becomes possible for him to live, for a time at least, as a person who is Somewhere and not Anywhere. (1.7).”
- “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.”
- “A repetition is the re-enactment of past experience toward the end of isolating the time segment which has lapsed in order that it, the lapsed time, can be savored of itself and without the usual adulteration of events that clog time like peanuts in brittle.”
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- 1916-05-28
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- 1990-05-10
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