4 Quotes & Sayings By William Alexander Percy

William Alexander Percy, known as Bill or Billy Percy, was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet. A native of Kinsman, Ohio, he is best remembered for his novel The Moviegoer. Percy wrote about the lives of people in his hometown, but his writing has also been described as Southern literature. He was born on December 28, 1911 in Kinsman, Ohio.

They ask little, for they know it is little they...
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They ask little, for they know it is little they will receive for all their asking, but what little is so dear, as it always is to the autumn-hearted who know life is pitiful and infinitely sweet. William Alexander Percy
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To the mind that could dream and shape our beaconed universe, what is injustice to us may be unfathomable tenderness, and our horror only loveliness misunderstood. William Alexander Percy
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The good die when they should live, the evil live when they should die; heroes perish and cowards escape; noble efforts do not succeed because they are noble, and wickedness is consumed in its own nature. Looking at truth is not at first a heartening experience--it becomes so, if at all, only with time, with infinite patience, and with the luck of a little personal happiness. William Alexander Percy