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William Alexander Percy Quotes

1885–1942 United States

William Alexander Percy (May 14, 1885 – January 21, 1942) was an American Southern poet and memoirist from the Mississippi Delta region.

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Honor and honesty, compassion and truth are good even if they kill you, for they alone give life its dignity and worth. (Ch. 24)

Lanterns on the Levee (1941)

Delta girls are born dancing and never stop, which is as it should be, for surely it is the finest form of human amusement except tennis and talking. (Ch. 12)

Lanterns on the Levee (1941)

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