Paul Beatty famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient.
-- Paul Beatty

#Art #Stuff #Ancient
I'm not very pious about anything, fortunately, but I'm skewering myself first. I'm skewering things that I care about and things that are important to me and then just my own foibles.
-- Paul Beatty

#Important #Care #Firsts
If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.
-- Paul Beatty

#Life #Doors #Want
There's this line between propriety and how we really speak and how we really think. And I'm just trying to have fun with that stuff.
-- Paul Beatty

#Fun #Thinking #Trying
I don't try to be satirical. I just try to get what's in my head on the page. And that part is hard for me to do. It takes a long, long time to make it poetic, somewhat essayistic.
-- Paul Beatty

#Long #Trying #Pages
I think everybody focuses on race, but it's about a ton of things, and I just see these things as all interrelated and all interwoven in a weird way.
-- Paul Beatty

#Thinking #Race #Way
I can't say that I love writing, but I do love the satisfaction that it gives me.
-- Paul Beatty

#Writing #Giving #Satisfaction
If New York is the City That Never Sleeps, then Los Angeles is the City That's Always Passed Out on the Couch.
-- Paul Beatty

#New York #Sleep #Cities
There are many similarities between Germans and blacks. The nouns themselves are loaded with so much historical baggage it's impossible for anyone to be indifferent to the simple mention of either group. We're two insightful people looking for reasons to love ourselves; and let's not forget we both love pork and wear sandals with socks.
-- Paul Beatty

#Simple #Two #People
I don't know exactly what a black Chinese restaurant would be, but I would sure love to see one.
-- Paul Beatty

#Chinese #Black #Would Be

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