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Quotes from The Last Gentleman — Walker Percy

1916–1990 United States

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What a man can be the next minute bears no relation to what he is or what he was the minute before.

The Last Gentleman (1966)

Good-looking and amiable as he was, however, he did not strike one as remarkable. People usually told him the same joke two or three times.

The Last Gentleman (1966)

He could tell that the other expected him to be surprised, but it was not in him to be surprised because it was no more surprising to him when things did not fall out as they were supposed to than when they did.

The Last Gentleman (1966)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Walker Percy (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.