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"Reread because i love this book dearly and to hype myself up for new ben lerner next week" Mar 27, 2026 03:16PM

 
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Percival Everett
“War is hell," she said. "Do you know why I always beat you, Daddy?"

"Tell me."

"Because you hate to lose pieces.”
Percival Everett, Telephone

Percival Everett
“I lay awake for the balance of the night letting my dream shatter into indecipherable pieces the way dreams do.”
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“She laughed and asked, "What if Shakespeare was just hitting keys?"

"Shakespeare didn't have a typewriter," I said.

"What if he was just making marks on paper? And that's how he came up with Macbeth?"

"I doubt it. Maybe Measure for Measure. I could see that with Measure for Measure. Not Macbeth.”
Percival Everett, Telephone

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“At the time of this writing, I do not know whether I will live much longer, and you don't know what I'm talking about.”
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“The sky was black, deep, infinite, the very thing that scared the Greeks and all the other ancients.”
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