Top 8 Percival Everett Quotes

#1. I don't think meaning exists without form, and certainly form does not exist without meaning. Meaning and story come first. Story is the most important part of fiction. Without it, what's the point? If all you care about is form, become a critic.

Percival Everett

#2. Linda Mallory is the postmodern fuck.

Percival Everett

#3. A metaphor cannot be paraphrased

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

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#5. It's a bitch, ain't it? The things we assume.

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

Percival Everett

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

Percival Everett

#8. I was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and there, my place in this world. I was a fighter of windmills. I was a chaser of whales.

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