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Top 15 Percival Everett Quotes (2025 Update)

Percival Everett Quote: “A metaphor cannot be paraphrased.”

1. “A metaphor cannot be paraphrased.”

— Percival Everett

Percival Everett Quote: “Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you.”

2. “Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you.”

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Percival Everett Quote: “It’s okay to love something bigger than yourself without fearing it. Anything worth loving is bigger than we are anyway.”

3. “It’s okay to love something bigger than yourself without fearing it. Anything worth loving is bigger than we are anyway.”

— Percival Everett

Percival Everett Quote: “He resisted the urge to let satire ring through his voice.”

4. “He resisted the urge to let satire ring through his voice.”

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Percival Everett Quote: “Why will I bury you? So that one day I might disturb your grave.”

5. “Why will I bury you? So that one day I might disturb your grave.”

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Percival Everett Quote: “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.”

6. “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

Percival Everett Quote: “She stared at the television. “Why is it that after all the bullets have bounced off Superman’s chest, he then ducks when the villain throws the empty gun at him?”

7. “She stared at the television. “Why is it that after all the bullets have bounced off Superman’s chest, he then ducks when the villain throws the empty gun at him?”

— Percival Everett

Percival Everett Quote: “It had a rear bumper sticker that read Legalize Recreational Plutonium.”

8. “It had a rear bumper sticker that read Legalize Recreational Plutonium.”

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Percival Everett Quote: “And though I missed my lover, I was not sad. I was satisfied. I was different.”

9. “And though I missed my lover, I was not sad. I was satisfied. I was different.”

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Percival Everett Quote: “Everybody talks about genocides around the world, but when the killing is slow and spread over a hundred years, no one notices. Where there are no mass graves, no one notices. American outrage is always for show. It has a shelf life.”

10. “Everybody talks about genocides around the world, but when the killing is slow and spread over a hundred years, no one notices. Where there are no mass graves, no one notices. American outrage is always for show. It has a shelf life.”

— Percival Everett

Percival Everett Quote: “You should know I consider police shootings to be lynchings.”

11. “You should know I consider police shootings to be lynchings.”

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Percival Everett Quote: “What’s your dog’s name?” “Oh, he ain’t got no name.” “Why’s that?” “I don’t like names,” the man said, looking down at his pet. “How do you call it?” Jim asked. “Call it?”

12. “What’s your dog’s name?” “Oh, he ain’t got no name.” “Why’s that?” “I don’t like names,” the man said, looking down at his pet. “How do you call it?” Jim asked. “Call it?”

— Percival Everett

Percival Everett Quote: “The lie felt good because I had taken control of the narrative around me. The.”

13. “The lie felt good because I had taken control of the narrative around me. The.”

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Percival Everett Quote: “Now here he was, tailored iron-gray suit, thin maroon tie, a maroon handkerchief peeking out from his breast pocket. His oxblood wing tips gleamed. He looked like a supervillain or, worse, an upper-crust English spy, an openly promiscuous and functionally alcoholic heterosexual with an on-and-off-again messiah complex. It was the shoes, the way they were tied.”

14. “Now here he was, tailored iron-gray suit, thin maroon tie, a maroon handkerchief peeking out from his breast pocket. His oxblood wing tips gleamed. He looked like a supervillain or, worse, an upper-crust English spy, an openly promiscuous and functionally alcoholic heterosexual with an on-and-off-again messiah complex. It was the shoes, the way they were tied.”

— Percival Everett

Percival Everett Quote: “People should know, understand that not all Thursdays are the same.”

15. “People should know, understand that not all Thursdays are the same.”

— Percival Everett

Percival Everett Quote: “It’s almost noon, Trig,” I said. “We’ve nearly run out of morning. A sad thought, morning being my favorite part of the day. My least favorite part of the day is from 2:34 to 4:56 in the afternoon.”

16. “It’s almost noon, Trig,” I said. “We’ve nearly run out of morning. A sad thought, morning being my favorite part of the day. My least favorite part of the day is from 2:34 to 4:56 in the afternoon.”

— Percival Everett

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