High school Quote by Paul Beatty

“His talent was to express his readers’ most stupid and ignorant prejudices as if they made sense, so that the shameful seemed respectable. That…

— Ken Follett

“He was worried about his country. Something was rotting from the inside—a slow decay of what was right and wrong. It was as if…

— Fannie Flagg

“If I liked listening to him, it was not because I believed or even respected the stuff he mouthed off every day at Café…

— André Aciman

“As I repeatedly went forth with him and began to understand the ignorance and contradictions and language difficulties with which he contended, and the…

— Joseph O'Neill

“And so liberalism had become a habit of Stepan Arkadyevitch's, and he liked his newspaper, as he did his cigar after dinner, for the…

— Leo Tolstoy

“He wanted to know about day-to-day life in America, what people ate and what consumed them, what shamed them and what attracted them, but…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“I know I grew up in the time when a young man in a baggy suit and slicked-down hair stood spraddle-legged in the crossroads…

— Rick Bragg

“Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“He was full of ironical admiration of his childishness and innocence in letting a wandering and characterless and scandalous American load him up with…

— Mark Twain

“That Hitchens represents a grievous loss to the left is beyond doubt. He is a superb writer, superior in wit and elegance to his…

— Terry Eagleton

“Truman charged that Republicans were "Wall Street reactionaries," "gluttons of privilege," "bloodsuckers," and "plunderers." GOP legislators in the 80th Congress, he said, were "tools…

— James T. Patterson

“Just as he was an Elk, a Booster, and a member of the Chamber of Commerce, just as the priests of the Presbyterian Church…

— Sinclair Lewis