Quote by Percival Everett Download Open image ““He resisted the urge to let satire ring through his voice.”” — Percival Everett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“It was as if he didn't want other people to talk to him, he was afraid that their chattering voices would drown out the… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
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“was some foul parody, some infamous ignoble satire. He had never done that. Still,” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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“He didn't shut up when people wanted him to, he made them listen - and then he listened in return. He refused to take… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
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“Of course he chanted with the rest: it was impossible to do otherwise. To dissemble your feelings, to control your face, to do what… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“This is what comes of making up conversations with frescoes, he chided himself as he dropped to his knees and bowed his head. Nothing… — Suzanne Harper Copy Share Image
“Replacing one word for another is ridiculous... The intention of it is where the problem resides, not in the spelling and pronunciation.” — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
“I was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and there, my place in this… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
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… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
“Like most people I am smarter than some, dumber than others, skinnier than most, and fatter than a few, but none was ever more… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
“I had never seen a white man filled with such fear. The remarkable truth, however, was that it was not the pistol, but my… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
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… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
“How's Mother?" "In and out." As I said it I wondered which was the bad way: in or out? Was she lost when she… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
It's okay to love something bigger than yourself without fearing it. Anything worth loving is bigger than we are anyway. — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
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… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
“I considered the northern white stance against slavery. How much of the desire to end the institution was fueled by a need to quell… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
