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Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer,
Ryan Holiday • Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent
You live in a deranged age — more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
Walker Percy
The Moviegoer, Walker Percy’s first book, came only after he’d conquered his almost teenage indolence and existential crisis, which lasted alarmingly into his forties.
Ryan Holiday • Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Walker Percy • A Confederacy of Dunces
Percy argues that most go through life witnessing not the actual world but their preconceptions of it.
Eric G. Wilson • Against Happiness
a man defines himself by his make-believe as well as by his sincere impulses.
Albert Camus • The Myth of Sisyphus (Vintage International)
Albert Camus wrote in his Notebooks of 1935–42: “Feelings and images multiply a philosophy by ten. People can only think in images. If you want to be a philosopher, write novels.”
Charles Johnson • The Way of the Writer: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling
