Percival Everett Quotes

• 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.

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  Art, Stupid, Thinking

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• Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you.

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  Away From You

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• A metaphor cannot be paraphrased

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  Metaphor, Paraphrased

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• It's okay to love something bigger than yourself without fearing it. Anything worth loving is bigger than we are anyway.

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  Bigger, Okay, Something Bigger Than Yourself

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• Why will I bury you? So that one day I might disturb your grave.

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  One Day, Might, Graves

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• 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.

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  Smart, Taken, Mean

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• 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.

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  Crazy, Nurse, Wish

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