Percival Everett famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Why will I bury you? So that one day I might disturb your grave.
-- Percival Everett

#One Day #Might #Graves
Everybody should read fictionâ€¦ I donâ€™t think serious fiction is written for a few people. I think we live in a stupid culture that wonâ€™t educate its people to read these things. It would be a much more interesting place if it would. And itâ€™s not just that mechanics and plumbers donâ€™t read literary fiction, itâ€™s that doctors and lawyers donâ€™t read literary fiction. It has nothing to do with class, it has to do with an anti-intellectual culture that doesnâ€™t trust art.
-- Percival Everett

#Art #Stupid #Thinking
Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you.
-- Percival Everett

#Away From You
It's okay to love something bigger than yourself without fearing it. Anything worth loving is bigger than we are anyway.
-- Percival Everett

#Bigger #Okay
A metaphor cannot be paraphrased
-- Percival Everett

#Metaphor #Paraphrased
Often one finds surprises in a novel, but it is rare to find a novel that is a surprise. Richard Melo's 'Happy Talk' is just that. It is like a collision of William Gaddis, M*A*S*H and The Beguiled. It is a Haiti I could never have imagined and will not soon forget. These nurses are crazy and I wish I knew them.
-- Percival Everett

#Crazy #Nurse #Wish
Elisabeth Sheffield's new novel is multilayered, smart, beautifully written, and funny. I was taken in by the first paragraph and held firmly through the roller coaster of a ride. The depth of the novel was evidenced by the constantly shifting meaning of the title itself. In fact, the entire work never changes its meaning, but somehow, seamlessly, simply means more. This is a rare and memorable piece of work.
-- Percival Everett

#Smart #Taken #Memorable
Everybody should read fiction… I don’t think serious fiction is written for a few people. I think we live in a stupid culture that won’t educate its people to read these things. It would be a much more interesting place if it would. And it’s not just that mechanics and plumbers don’t read literary fiction, it’s that doctors and lawyers don’t read literary fiction. It has nothing to do with class, it has to do with an anti-intellectual culture that doesn’t trust art.
-- Percival Everett

#Art #Stupid #Thinking

I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.
She was crazy. I could be too. It was my greatest fear, that I'd snap one day too. Just like she had. I wanted to live life because if that day came I wanted to have lived once.
... The meeting is called by the U.S. to give their vision of the interim Iraqi authority. It will be a one-day meeting. And the U.S. will present its vision, and there will be a statement after the meeting.
If you will not worship God seven days a week, you do not worship Him one day a week.
I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London'.
The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.
His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.
But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.
The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present. If we had been there listening, we still might not have been able to determine exactly what Stanton said. All we know for sure is that everyone was weeping, and the room was full.
Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.

Percival Everett famous quotes

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