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Americans are born knowing everything and nothing. Born moving forward, quickly, or thinking they are. -- Dave Eggers
Carol turned around quickly as if stifling an urge to lunge at Max. He turned back to Max, straining to appear genial. "Okay," he said, "but will you come over here and put your head in my mouth again?"
Max continued to back up, "No, Carol. I don't want to right now. -- Dave Eggers
It only takes one person, one small act of stepping from the dark to the light. -- Dave Eggers
Live long enough and you'll disappoint everyone. People think you're able to help them and usually you can't. And so it becomes a process of choosing the one or two people you try hardest not to disappoint. The person in my life I am determined not to disappoint is you. -- Dave Eggers
I've never had WiFi at home. I'm too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting. -- Dave Eggers
This had happened to him before - in an effort to disappear, he had made himself more conspicuous. -- Dave Eggers
If you want to write about people, you can make it up. But if you spend time talking to someone and examining what it is you want to write about, you discover a level of detail that you wouldn't have noticed otherwise. -- Dave Eggers
The truth is that I do not like hanging in there. I was born, I believe, to do more. Or perhaps it's that I survived to do more. Dorsetta is married, a mother of three, and manages a restaurant; she does more than hang in there. I have a low opinion of this expression, Hang in there. -- Dave Eggers
They downloaded another customer query, and Mae scrolled through the boilerplates, found the appropriate answer, personalized it, and sent it back. -- Dave Eggers
Their howls rose to the sky and twisted together until they were on, and the other beasts joined in too, all of their voices creating a wild, plaintive song of sorry and abandon and anger and love. -- Dave Eggers
Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot. -- Dave Eggers
I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house. -- Dave Eggers
When you're in your twenties in a new city where no one's from here, we're all sort of orphans. The only people that you can count on our bunch of people that you work with and that you know. You're only as good as the reliability of that latticework. -- Dave Eggers
Why do we pursue information that we know will never leave our heads? -- Dave Eggers
Like I don't know the first thing about how to be simply grateful that I'm alive. Maybe that's what's missing in our generation. Maybe we just feel too safe, too secure. We have too much stuff and no threat of any of it disappearing anytime soon. -- Dave Eggers
What would a brain do if not these sorts of exercises? I have no idea how people function without near-constant chaos. I'd lose my mind. -- Dave Eggers
You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher. -- Dave Eggers
But that's one lifetime." Yeah." But while doing that one I'd want to be able to have done other stuff. Whole other lives- the one where I sail-" I know, on a boat you made yourself. -- Dave Eggers
Cancer walked all over my father, in large part because he opened the door, turned on the porch light, and invited it in heartily
You old bastard! Come in and have a vodka tonic! -- Dave Eggers
My Cuddle Time Bible Story Book
Sleeping with Jesus
Baby Bibles: Tall Tales for Tiny tots
Everybody Poops (Except God) -- Dave Eggers
Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal. -- Dave Eggers
It was a broken world, I knew then, that would allow a boy such as me to bury a boy such as William K. -- Dave Eggers
It was like setting up a guillotine in the public square.You don't expect a thousand people to line up to put their heads in it. -- Dave Eggers
If you don't have something grand for men like us to be part of, we will take apart all the little things. Neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Building by building. Family by family. -- Dave Eggers
The men who are dropped in a jungle or a desert and expected video games and got mundanity and depravity and friends dying like animals. -- Dave Eggers
He remained, weeks after awakening, in that period of early-morning consciousness that allows easy re-entry to dreaming. His limbs still tingled with the residue of sleep, and most days he wanted badly to allow it to overtake him again. -- Dave Eggers
But Tom," said the moon, "the swinging of your pendulums! Everyone's a pendulum swinging, to and fro, and always you're getting hit by someone else's swinging pendulum. You're minding your own business, but someone else'e pendulum is swinging around, and pow! you get it in the head. -- Dave Eggers
Did children want sports cars for parents? No. They wanted Hondas. They wanted to know that the car would start in all seasons. -- Dave Eggers
As we all know here at the Circle, transparency leads to peace of mind. No longer -- Dave Eggers
Well now you're contradicting yourself. With balance there cannot be chaos. With randomness there can be no punishment. You're pleading for punishment in hopes that you'll see your God. Without punishment there is no God. If there is balance then there is your Lord. If balance then afterlife. -- Dave Eggers
But it felt good to cry, to let her shoulders shake, to feel the hot tears on her face, to taste their baby salt, to wipe snot all over the underside of her shirt. -- Dave Eggers
Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let's not forget this. -- Dave Eggers
When I was on the bestseller list with the first book, everyone who knows me knows that every week it continued to be on the list was a very dark week for me. Everyone knows that all I wanted was to be off that list. -- Dave Eggers
Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody. -- Dave Eggers
When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you get all that out in one fell swoop sometimes. -- Dave Eggers
If you think I'm annoying and preachy now, you should have known me in grade school. -- Dave Eggers
The woman serving me was wearing a white sports bra that looked like it had been mauled by tigers
desert isle chic. -- Dave Eggers
Toph looks at me. I nod gravely. In this world, in our new world, there will be rocking. We will pay tribute to musicmakers like Journey, particularly if this is Two-for-Tuesday, which means inevitably that one of the songs will be: Just a small-town girl ... -- Dave Eggers
Outside the walls of the Circle, all was noise and struggle, failure and filth. But here, all had been perfected. The best people had made the best systems and the best systems had reaped funds, unlimited funds, -- Dave Eggers
This boy thinks I am not of his species, that I am some other kind of creature, one that can be crushed under the weight of a phone book.
The pain is not great, but the symbolism is disagreeable. -- Dave Eggers
Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic. -- Dave Eggers
I had forgotten that, and so many things. How could I put everything down on paper? It seemed impossible. No matter what, the majority of life would be left out of this story, this sliver of a version of the life I'd known. But I tried anyway. -- Dave Eggers
You know what I think? I think everyone should be able, just once, to make an inanimate object come to life and be his pal. Like an orange. Or a hammer. -- Dave Eggers
Thank you," he says.
"Thank who?"
"I don't know. You?"
"No, not me. Jesus."
"Thank you, Jesus?"
"Yes, Toph, Jesus died for your Christmas fun. -- Dave Eggers
I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day. -- Dave Eggers
Your memory has always been given to opportunistic revision. -- Dave Eggers
This book is a form of struggle, and it keeps my spirit alive to struggle. -- Dave Eggers
You don't know what it's like to be a man over thirty who's never had anything happen to him. You spend so many years trying to stay safe, stay alive, to avoid some unknown horror. Then you realize the horror is existence itself. The nothing-happening. -- Dave Eggers
I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love. -- Dave Eggers
We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. If I ever love again, I will not wait to love as I can. It is no way to live, to wait to love. -- Dave Eggers
1. The Amazing Race
2. I Thought This Show Was Gonna Be About Aryans
3. Oh.
(Joe O'Neill, from Opium) -- Dave Eggers
I went to Saudi Arabia in 2010, and spent most of my time in Jeddah and the King Abdullah Economic City. -- Dave Eggers
I thought we were all the same but as I was inside my dead body and looking into the murky river bottom I knew that some are wanting to run and some are afraid to run and maybe they are broken and are angry for it. -- Dave Eggers
This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos. -- Dave Eggers
At that moment I was sure. That I belonged in my skin. That my organs were mine and my eyes were mine and my ears, which could only hear the silence of this night and my faint breathing, were mine, and I loved them and what they could do. -- Dave Eggers
Overnight, all comment boards became civil, all posters held accountable. The trolls, who had more or less overtaken the internet, were driven back into the darkness. -- Dave Eggers
The Earth is an animal that shakes off its fleas when they dig too deep, bite too hard. It shifts and our cities fall; it sighs and the coasts are overtaken. -- Dave Eggers
Did you hear that crazy man? we said.
Education is your mother? we said.
We laughed and did imitations. We thought Mr. Kondit, like more than a few of the men and boys who had crossed the desert to get to Ethiopia, had lost his mind along the way. -- Dave Eggers
The issue is complex, but like many matters in Sudan, it is not as complex as Khartoum would want the west to believe. -- Dave Eggers
You're not seeing anything, saying anything. The weird paradox is that you think you're at the center of things, and that makes your opinions more valuable, but you yourself are becoming less vibrant. I bet you haven't done anything offscreen in months. -- Dave Eggers
It is very much, she thinks, like looking at the moon and knowing one could make it there, too. It is only time and breath that stand between her and the top. She is young. She'll do it and have done it. -- Dave Eggers
Things that exist exist, and everything is on their side. -- Dave Eggers
Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes. -- Dave Eggers
I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S. -- Dave Eggers
Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you. -- Dave Eggers
No. There is no balance, and no retribution, and no rules. The rules and balances you blather about are hopeful creations of a man fearing death. -- Dave Eggers
Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college. -- Dave Eggers
Something about how all this could or would lead to totalitarianism. Her stomach sank. -- Dave Eggers
You know how you finish a bag of chips and you hate yourself? You know you've done nothing good for yourself. That's the same feeling, and you know it is, after some digital binge. You feel wasted and hollow and diminished. -- Dave Eggers
I always like the idea of doing interviews with somebody but completely seriously not ever mentioning what that person is generally known for. -- Dave Eggers
Under the guise of having every voice heard, you create mob rule, a filterless society where secrets are crimes. -- Dave Eggers
I've always been interested in the form itself, so I always feel like I've never been good at going ahead with the artifice and not acknowledging the self in the artistic process, and not acknowledging the absurdity of pretending that's required in fiction. -- Dave Eggers
Thoughts are made of water and water always finds a way. -- Dave Eggers
and because total non-communication in a place like the Circle was so difficult, it felt like violence. -- Dave Eggers
I often cannot believe the things I do. -- Dave Eggers
Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, 'The Things They Carried', has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be definitive. But it's fiction. -- Dave Eggers
It was as if, for a moment, she thought Mae was one kind of person, but now, knowing she was another, she could part with her, she could give her back to the world. -- Dave Eggers
We want everyone to follow their dreams, their hearts (aren't they bursting, like ours?); we want them doing things that we will find interesting. -- Dave Eggers
Still though, I think if you're not self-obsessed, you're probably boring. -- Dave Eggers
So yeah, we put llamas everywhere. That was us. We just liked looking at them, so we bred about six million and spread them around. -- Dave Eggers
But what I really want is to just swim around in a warm baby pool of these friends, jump in their dry leaf pile-to rub them all over myself, without words and clothes. -- Dave Eggers
Every time someone started shouting about the supposed monopoly of the Circle, or the Circle's unfair monetization of the personal data of its users, or some other paranoid and demonstrably false claim, soon enough it was revealed that that person was a criminal or deviant of the highest order. -- Dave Eggers
It looked a lot like a dog.
"What's that?" Max asked, expecting to hear about a mythical creature with a mythical name.
Carol squinted and put his hand over his eyes to see better. "Oh that's a dog," he said. "I don't talk to that guy anymore. -- Dave Eggers
Maybe if he was the sort of man who could eat someone else's hash browns, who the hotel wanted to impress so much they sent him someone else's breakfast, maybe then he was the sort of man who could get an audience with the King. -- Dave Eggers
But something about his inability to give in, to admit defeat, or to at least acknowledge the incredible power of the technology at Mae's command ... she knew she couldn't give up until she had received some sense of his acquiescence. -- Dave Eggers
Nothing again. No one is listening. No one is waiting to hear the kicking of a man above. It is unexpected. You have no ears for someone like me. -- Dave Eggers
We were entwined so tightly that I was afraid to breathe, lest she move at all. -- Dave Eggers
There was the horror of morning, underslept, feeling she was on the precipice of something that felt like mono, the day already galloping away from her, her chasing on foot, carrying her boots. Then the brief upward respite after a second cup of coffee, when all seemed possible, when -- Dave Eggers
At this point there were good days, good weeks, when we pretended that it was acceptable that Jack had lived at all, that his life had been, in its truncated way, complete. This wasn't one of those days. -- Dave Eggers
The Pakistan fundraiser was thoroughly inspiring - the event was able to amass 2.3 million smiles for the school -- Dave Eggers
And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands more students. -- Dave Eggers
High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list. Make it collaborative: The students will feel ownership, and everyone will dig in. -- Dave Eggers
Everyone will be tracked, cradle to grave, with no possibility of escape. -- Dave Eggers
She backed away, looking at him, his shirt hiked up, his crotch exposed. She could think only of a campfire, one small log, all of it doused in milk. -- Dave Eggers
Ty swept his arms around, encompassing everything around them, the vast campus above. "All this. The fucking shark that eats the world. -- Dave Eggers
Kit, you say your mother hasn't changed, but she has. A hundred times she's changed. It's important to know with adults, thought there is continual development, there is not always improvement. There is change, but not necessarily growth. -- Dave Eggers
Josie glanced back to the TV. Again the players seemed to be celebrating some minor achievement. It offended the eye at first, then Josie grew to understand it. That's what's missing in my life, she thought. The celebration of every single moment, like those fucking idiots on TV. -- Dave Eggers
But the tools you guys create actually manufacture unnaturally extreme social needs. No -- Dave Eggers
Hand and I needed pants, pants to end all pants - warm and cool, breathing and trapping in, full of pockets. -- Dave Eggers
Some of the bank people were so young they'd never seen a business proposal suggesting manufacturing things in the state of Massachusetts. They thought they'd unearthed some ancient shaman, full of clues to a forgotten world. -- Dave Eggers
But when friends would ask Kathy whether they, too, should start their own business, she talked them out of it. You don't run the business, she would say. The business runs you. -- Dave Eggers
I had the sensation that I might always be running like this, that I would always have to run, and that I would always be able to run. -- Dave Eggers
Having a matrix of preferences presented as your essence, as the whole you? Maybe that was it. It was some kind of mirror, but it was incomplete, distorted. -- Dave Eggers
How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting. -- Dave Eggers
Some days he climbed over the foothills of indifference to see the landscape of his life and future for what it was: mappable, traversable, achievable. -- Dave Eggers
I hung up the phone, jubilant, and threw myself into a wall, then pretended to be getting electrocuted. I do this when I'm very happy. -- Dave Eggers
Three-dimensional results are important to me. I did once spend some time just writing, and floating around, and I lost my mind a little bit. I wasn't so good at that. -- Dave Eggers
There were people in the world for whom the world and its people were subjects on which to cast spells. -- Dave Eggers
You see pictures of Buddha and he's sitting, reclining, at peace. The Hindus have their twelve-armed elephant god, who also seems so content but not powerless. But leave it to Christians to have a dead and bloody man nailed to a cross. -- Dave Eggers
His frustration with some Americans was like that of a disappointed parent. He was so content in this country, so impressed with and loving of its opportunities, but then why, sometimes, did Americans fall short of their best selves? -- Dave Eggers
People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange. -- Dave Eggers
The idea we came up with, well before we left, was something we coined Performance Literature. Excuse the use of that second word, because I realize it's presumptuous. Also, excuse the first word, and the term in general. -- Dave Eggers
The needed to talk about Annie, the thoughts she was thinking. Why shouldn't they know them? The world deserved nothing less and would not wait. -- Dave Eggers
How old are you?" the woman asked. "You look about eleven." "Twenty-four," Mae said. "My god. You don't have a mark on you. Were we ever twenty-four, my love?" She turned to the man, who was using a ballpoint pen to scratch the arch of his foot. He shrugged, and the woman let the matter drop. -- Dave Eggers
You sit at a desk twelve hours a day and you have nothing to show for it except for some numbers that won't exist or be remembered in a week. You're leaving no evidence that you lived. There's no proof. -- Dave Eggers
Dan nodded emphatically, as if his mouth had just uttered, independently, something that his ears found quite profound. -- Dave Eggers
It is no way to live, to wait to love. -- Dave Eggers
I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning. I just have an affection for paper, and that's no secret, I guess. -- Dave Eggers
He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith? -- Dave Eggers
The death of a young person for no reason is an apocalypse. -- Dave Eggers
We would oppose the turning of the planet and refuse the setting of the sun. -- Dave Eggers
But that in any city, in any cluster of people, there a few people who are awake at this hour, who are both awake and dancing, and it's here that we need to be. -- Dave Eggers
But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defies easy categorization. -- Dave Eggers
Who were these people, all of them young couples, a few fabulous ones, tall thin-haired blondes with toned men in perfectly pressed jeans
neither fearing the loss of the other. -- Dave Eggers
Nicaragua sounded dangerous; she liked the word. Nicaragua! It sounded like some kind of spider. There it goes, under the table - Nicaragua! -- Dave Eggers
Memory, perhaps, should have no physical shape. -- Dave Eggers
We are unusual and tragic and alive. -- Dave Eggers
I'm never a fan of the sociopathic kind of reviewing, people who are sort of self-immolating and have social problems or whatever, and let it out in literary-criticism form. I just feel like book reviewing should be respectful and calm and not filled with bile. -- Dave Eggers
Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know.
After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned -- Dave Eggers
You wouldn't believe what people will believe once they know our story. They're ready for anything, basically - will believe anything, because they've been thrown off-balance, are still wondering if any of this is true, our story in general, but aren't sure and are terrified of offending us. -- Dave Eggers
Alan tried to reassure her the same way he always had.
--I'm the eye in the say, he said. I can see where you started and where you're going and it looks perfectly fine from up here. -- Dave Eggers
Openness is all, she thought. Truth was its own reward. -- Dave Eggers
You have what I can afford to give. You are a panhandler, begging for anything, and I am the man walking briskly by, tossing a quarter or so into your paper cup. I can afford to give you this. This does not break me. -- Dave Eggers
When I was very young I couldn't watch anything black and white on TV because I knew the people moving were now dust. -- Dave Eggers
Alan had never been stabbed or shot or punctured or broken. Were scars the best evidence of living? If we have not survived something, and thus were certain that we'd lived, we could scar ourselves, couldn't we? -- Dave Eggers
But there was something psychological happening there that was just a little bit different. And the other thing was, there was no stigma. Kids weren't going into the 'Center-for-Kids-That-Need-More-Help' or something like that. It was 826 Valencia. -- Dave Eggers
PRIVACY IS THEFT -- Dave Eggers
Every time my brain parks the car neatly in the driveway, my mouth drives through the back of the garage. -- Dave Eggers
It was always difficult to get cattle returned once a marriage was dissolved. -- Dave Eggers
I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'. -- Dave Eggers
Many of the members of the class had never held ice. -- Dave Eggers
Maybe he was more than the sum of his broken parts. -- Dave Eggers
If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air. -- Dave Eggers
But there is risk.
But the risk is worth it. -- Dave Eggers
A combination of acting, lying, begging, and cheating. -- Dave Eggers
This war has made racists of too many of the and too many of us, and it is the leadership in Khartoum that has stoked this fire, that has brought to the surface, and in some cases created from whole cloth, new hatreds that have bred unprecedented acts of brutality. -- Dave Eggers
That only having left could she and her children achieve something like sublimity, that without movement there is no struggle, and without struggle there is no purpose, and without purpose there is nothing at all. She wanted to tell every mother, every father: There is meaning in motion. -- Dave Eggers
You invite things to happen. You open the door. You inhale. And if you inhale the chaos, you give the chaos, the chaos gives back. -- Dave Eggers
The peculiar problem of constant connectivity: any silence of more than a few hours provokes apocalyptic thoughts. -- Dave Eggers
I'm of the opinion that secrets kept in life should be honored in death, that nothing changes simply because you're not there to defend yourself. -- Dave Eggers
Suffering is only suffering if it's done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in view of loving millions, was no longer pain. It was communion. -- Dave Eggers
We've sent over 180 million frowns from the U.S alone, and you can bet that has an effect on the regime. -- Dave Eggers
What had been intriguing on Monday and Tuesday was approaching annoying by Wednesday and exasperating by Thursday. -- Dave Eggers
She felt some measure of relief knowing that in the very least, on the open road she would have some time to think. -- Dave Eggers
My head was a condemned church with a ceiling of bats, but I swung from this dark mood to euphoria when I thought about leaving. -- Dave Eggers
I should probably get a stone. A stone would be good. A stone would save me, would salvage all the damage we had already done, all the things we had given up or lost. -- Dave Eggers
Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves. -- Dave Eggers
I live because I do not exist. -- Dave Eggers
Every fucking suburb has a SWAT team. -- Dave Eggers
But of course there's no logic to San Francisco generally, a city built with putty and pipe cleaners, rubber cement and colored construction paper. It's the work of fairies, elves, happy children with new crayons -- Dave Eggers
We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils. -- Dave Eggers
Did you ever think that perhaps our minds are delicately calibrated between the known and the unknown? That our souls need the mysteries of night and the clarity of day? -- Dave Eggers
First of all:
I am tired.
I am true of heart!
And Also:
You are tired.
You are true of heart! -- Dave Eggers
It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent. -- Dave Eggers
Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics. -- Dave Eggers
The idea of 'Voice of Witness' is to let survivors and witnesses of human-rights abuses tell their story at length. It started with a course that I co-taught at U.C. Berkeley journalism school back in 2003. -- Dave Eggers
Street traders, unabashed about being wealthy, about being single and aggressive and possibly dangerous. He was a free-spending global titan in his early fifties who -- Dave Eggers
People worried about our passing over into some robotic state, but we were so much like robots already, programmed and easy to manipulate. -- Dave Eggers
Now create in your mind the best of days, and memorize these details, place this day center in your mind, and when you are the most frightened, bring forth this day and place yourself within it. -- Dave Eggers
Don't you think if someone like me, someone who invented most of this shit, is scared, don't you think you should be scared, too? -- Dave Eggers
Also, I need deadlines, just like everybody else, especially coming from magazines, newspapers, and stuff like that. I need daily or weekly deadlines to get stuff done, or I continue to do things and not go off on a year of unproductivity. -- Dave Eggers
I see colors like you hear jet planes. -- Dave Eggers
Secrets are the enablers of antisocial, immoral and destructive behavior. -- Dave Eggers
Don't presume the benevolence of your leaders. -- Dave Eggers
This was uncalled for. -- Dave Eggers
Morning comes like a scream through a pinhole. -- Dave Eggers
I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often. -- Dave Eggers
My voice and movements are restricted by the things I own. -- Dave Eggers
When we pass by another person without telling them we love them it's cruel and wrong and we all know this. -- Dave Eggers
I'm better than you think. I'm even better than I think I am. -- Dave Eggers
Why shouldn't your curiosity about the world be rewarded? -- Dave Eggers
There was a rumor that Project 9 engineers had figured out a way to replace the random jumble of our nighttime dreaming with organized thinking and real-life problem solving. -- Dave Eggers
You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they're smart people. But you don't throw at them the trappings of adulthood and you know, the darker stuff. -- Dave Eggers
I am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful and utilitarian. -- Dave Eggers
I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything; I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper. -- Dave Eggers
The easiest way to witness the stupidity and misplaced hopes of all humanity is to watch, for twenty minutes, a human being using a leaf blower. -- Dave Eggers
If your hand doesn't work for it, your heart doesn't feel sorry for it. -- Dave Eggers
Write your goddamned book now. The world awaits. -- Dave Eggers
There would be a time when the world created people stronger than them. When all of this got worked out. But until then there would be women and men like Hanne and Alan, who were imperfect and had no path toward perfection. -- Dave Eggers
The author would also like to acknowledge makers of comic book villains and superheroes, those who invented, or at least popularized, the notion of the normal, mild-mannered person transformed into a mutant by freak accident. -- Dave Eggers
The air is like being wanted, we say, and they nod approvingly. The air is like getting older, they say, and they touch our arms gently. -- Dave Eggers
Every part of my body felt electric. My chest ached and my head throbbed with the great terrible limitless possibility of the morning, and when it came, the sky was washed white, everything was new, and I hadn't slept at all. -- Dave Eggers
Always we learn things and then we forget them. -- Dave Eggers
I didn't care anymore what my ancestors would think. We were the Red Army and needed to eat. -- Dave Eggers
She spent her idle time conceiving of musicals that would never be. It was the only medium that could properly express our true madness and hypocrisy---our collective ability to sit in a theater watching lunatics sing nonsense while the world outside burns. -- Dave Eggers
The weird thing is that working within an established story was actually kind of liberating. You know the beginning and middle and end, more or less, so there's less pressure to figure all that out. -- Dave Eggers
We see the beauty within and cannot say no. -- Dave Eggers
She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the past, and when she does, she remembers things, and her new journal entries become, for the most part, reactions to the days she regrets, wants to correct, rewrite. -- Dave Eggers
McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object. -- Dave Eggers
For a moment, she thought it natural in a way seeing a plane fall from the sky can seem natural, too. The horror comes later. -- Dave Eggers
Loud it is in here? You hear the echo? - Help! Help! - I'm so disappointed in you, Kev. -- Dave Eggers
Most people would trade everything they know, everyone they know- they'd trade it all to know they've been seen, and acknowledged, that they might even be remembered. We all know the world is too big for us to be significant. So all we have is the hope of being seen, or heard, even for a moment. -- Dave Eggers
I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I'd lose my mind. -- Dave Eggers
I've purposely stayed away from reading much about postmodern theory, and most everything I have read just bored me to tears. I don't think anybody's written about it, or very few have, with any verve. -- Dave Eggers
One might think that a boy who was out in the snow for so long would get cold, but Max was not. He was warm, partly because he had on many layers, and partly because boys who are part wolf and part wind do not get cold. -- Dave Eggers
There are many Saudi women doctors, and there are many wealthy and powerful and well-educated Saudi women who circumvent the restrictions put upon them, quietly or otherwise. -- Dave Eggers
There is travel and there are babies; everything else is drudgery and death. -- Dave Eggers
Courage was the beginning, being unafraid, moving ahead, through small hardships, not turning back. Courage was simply a form of moving forward. -- Dave Eggers
He wanted to fly in lightweight contraptions with her. -- Dave Eggers
The heat was alive, predatory. -- Dave Eggers
Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don't, right? -- Dave Eggers
What he had was a sense that few things mattered much. That few people are to be feared. And so he now faced all such situations with a sense of exhausted resolve, and he dealt with everything head-on. -- Dave Eggers
I think there's a future where the Web and print coexist and they each do things uniquely and complement each other, and we have what could be the ultimate and best-yet array of journalistic venues. -- Dave Eggers
You willingly tie yourself to these leashes. And you willingly become utterly socially autistic. You no longer pick up on basic human communication clues. You're at a table with three humans, all of whom are looking at you and trying to talk to you, and you're staring at a screen, -- Dave Eggers
Young men, come and blow things up. -- Dave Eggers
We both see strangers and react. We don't like to walk by people without nodding. We're broken when people are rude. Were broken when people can't meet us halfway. We can't accept the limits of normal human relations-chilly, clothed, circumscribed. Our hearts pull against their leashes. -- Dave Eggers
That's the vast majority of this social media, all these reviews, all these comments. Your tools have elevated gossip, hearsay and conjecture to the level of valid, mainstream communication. -- Dave Eggers
When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen. -- Dave Eggers
I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there. -- Dave Eggers
So many people who wanted no part of all this. That's what's new. There used to be the option of opting out. But now that's over. Completion is the end. We're closing the circle around everyone - it's a totalitarian nightmare. -- Dave Eggers
Now, you and I both know that if you can control the flow of information, you can control everything. -- Dave Eggers
You might not be able to operate your own Learjet and have an unlimited expense account, but if you have a reasonable expectation for a print-based product, whether it's a newspaper or a magazine, you can certainly exist. -- Dave Eggers
Who else but utopians could make utopia? -- Dave Eggers
It was called the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages. If not for the monks, everything the world had ever learned would have been lost. Well, we live in a similar time, when we're losing the vast majority of what we do and see and learn. But it doesn't have to be that way. -- Dave Eggers
You look at pictures of Nepal, push a smile button, and you think that's the same as going there. -- Dave Eggers
Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. -- Dave Eggers
I know forever they will be in my house, the rooms of my mind, I know this and I have accepted this but while I know they will be there I want them dead there. I cannot have them breathing there! I want them in the floirboards of the basement of my soul. -- Dave Eggers
Too often they tell me to answer my doubts with prayer, which seems very much like addressing one's hunger by thinking of food. -- Dave Eggers
I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book. -- Dave Eggers
Director of Ensuring the Future -- Dave Eggers
Here is a drawing of a stapler: -- Dave Eggers
But while Sasha told us that in America even the most successful men can have but one wife at once
my father had six
and talked about escalators, indoor plumbing, and the various laws of the land, he did not warn us that I would be told by American teenagers that I should go back to Africa. -- Dave Eggers
I am a freak in secondhand velour, a leper who uses L'Oreal Anti-sticky Mega Gel. I am rootless, ripped from all foundations, an orphan raising an orphan and wanting to take away everything there is and replace it with stuff I've made. -- Dave Eggers
Grief doesn't arrive on schedule, as much as we'd like to. -- Dave Eggers
It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur. -- Dave Eggers
I think newspapers shouldn't try to compete directly with the Web, and should do what they can do better, which may be long-form journalism and using photos and art, and making connections with large-form graphics and really enhancing the tactile experience of paper. -- Dave Eggers
Writing is a deep-sea dive. You need hours just to get into it: down, down, down. If you're called back to the surface every couple of minutes by an email, you can't ever get back down. I have a great friend who became a Twitterer and he says he hasn't written anything for a year. -- Dave Eggers
Why did we do that to Pluto? We had it good with Pluto. -- Dave Eggers
Every day some scientist discovered a new species of frog or waterlily, and that, too, seemed to confirm some divine showman, some celestial inventor putting new toys before us, hidden but hidden poorly, just where we might happen upon them. -- Dave Eggers
Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity) -- Dave Eggers
Public-private leads to private-private, and soon you have the Circle running most or even all government services, -- Dave Eggers
In hospitals I feel palpable comfort. I feel the competence, the expertise, so much education and money, all of the supplies sterile, everything packaged, sealed tight. My fears evaporate when the automatic doors shush open. -- Dave Eggers
Who says we don't want to be inspired? We fucking want to be inspired! What the fuck is wrong with us wanting to be inspired? Everyone acts like it's some crazy idea, some outrageous ungrantable request. Don't we deserve grand human projects that give us meaning? -- Dave Eggers
The key thing is managed awareness of your role in the world and history. Think too much and you know you are nothing. Think just enough and you know you are small, but important to some. That's the best you can do. -- Dave Eggers
His lies were so exquisite I almost wept. -- Dave Eggers
Likewise, everyone at the Circle there had been chosen, and thus the gene pool was extraordinary, the brainpower phenomenal. It was a place where everyone endeavored, constantly and passionately, to improve themselves, each other, share their knowledge, disseminate it to the world. -- Dave Eggers
It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number of books there. -- Dave Eggers
Loneliness is just a thing that I'm not personally interested in. So far, it hasn't been on my docket of things to write about. -- Dave Eggers
Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore. -- Dave Eggers
It seemed the whole world knew this person named Diana, and if the world knew her, the connection between the peoples of the earth was tighter than I had imagined. I wondered if the people of England would mourn if Mike and Grace died. At that time, confused as I was, I imagined that they would. -- Dave Eggers
All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. ~ on the friends we choose. -- Dave Eggers
A secret between two friends, Mae, is an ocean. It's wide and deep and we lose ourselves in it. -- Dave Eggers
The house is a factory. -- Dave Eggers
Your tools have elevated gossip, hearsay and conjecture to the level of valid, mainstream communication. And besides that, it's fucking dorky. Mae exhaled -- Dave Eggers
But without William K, I would have forgotten that I had not been born on this journey. That I had lived before this. -- Dave Eggers
I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done. I had one of those yesterday: seven hours of self-loathing. -- Dave Eggers
First of all, I know it's all people like you. And that's what's so scary. Individually you don't know what you're doing collectively. -- Dave Eggers
So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas. -- Dave Eggers
I'll always be working on five things at once, usually with those documents open at the same time because if I get stuck somewhere I'll jump over to something else. That's how my head has always worked. -- Dave Eggers
You and I read the same books and hear the same sermons and we come away with different messages. That has to be evidence of some serious problem, right? -- Dave Eggers
It was a sad place, especially after a day at the Circle, where all was made with care and love and the gift of a good eye. -- Dave Eggers
He was feeling buoyant, flexible. He wanted to go jogging. He stood. He couldn't go jogging. He called room service and ordered a basket of breads and pastries. -- Dave Eggers
I am too fucking fragile. I hate being fragile. -- Dave Eggers
They took my mother's stomach out six months ago. -- Dave Eggers
The money that could have saved the Shuttle, and the money we send to random countries, that we use to remake unchangeable countries ten thousand miles away. -- Dave Eggers
This is why Max loved Mr. Beckmann: he was an equal. He seemed to have navigated his way through seven or so decades of adulthood without forgetting one moment of his childhood- what he loved and hated, feared and coveted. -- Dave Eggers
Hello Frances, I have just been to health class, and I was wondering how your feminine parts were developing. -- Dave Eggers
( ... ) my problem with paper is that all communication dies with it. It holds no possibility of continuity. -- Dave Eggers
Animals howl, he had been told, to declare their existence. -- Dave Eggers
Then he got more books. He saved all the books. -- Dave Eggers
In the forest, we boys were food. -- Dave Eggers
We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare and wonderful. It's almost historically unprecedented. We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to. -- Dave Eggers
There is no faith like the faith of a builder of homes in coastal Louisiana -- Dave Eggers
And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students. -- Dave Eggers
Be strong, be brave, be true. Endure. -- Dave Eggers
Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation. -- Dave Eggers
I grew up north of Chicago, not far from where the Schwinn bicycle plant used to be, and was conscious of the fact that these beautiful, everlasting bikes were made just down the road. -- Dave Eggers
Knowledge is a basic human right. Equal access to all possible human experiences is a basic human right. -- Dave Eggers
She pulls away, pats me on the shoulder with three mini-pats, like those used to pet reptiles. -- Dave Eggers
I wondered quickly if I'd give my life so that a dragon could live. If someone offered me that deal, your life for the existence of dragons.I thought maybe yes, maybe no. -- Dave Eggers
To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be a graphic novel, so that will have to be that way. -- Dave Eggers
I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum. -- Dave Eggers
But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them. -- Dave Eggers
Why do you want to be on The Real World?
-Because I want everyone to witness my youth
Why?
-Isn't it gorgeous? -- Dave Eggers
To struggle is to strengthen my faith, my hope and my belief in humanity. -- Dave Eggers
But you already know me pretty well by now! Helena said, and then directed her to her own profile page. -- Dave Eggers
We've lost that very simple transaction that's so pure, where a reader can say, "I support what you're doing, here's my dollar. I know that you guys are gonna be watchdogs or keep the government accountable, so here's my 50-cent contribution each day." It's just so tidy, and I think so inspiring. -- Dave Eggers
Alan was feeling strong. He did two push-ups and felt stronger still. -- Dave Eggers
3. There are bears and there are small dogs. Be strong like bear! If they take out your teeth, sit on the dogs. Bears always forget they can just sit on the dogs. Sit on the dogs. -- Dave Eggers
WHEN we don't get the results we want in our military endeavors, we don't blame the soldiers. -- Dave Eggers
The work of man is done behind the back of the natural world. When nature notices, and can muster the energy, it wipes the slate clean again. -- Dave Eggers
You still know that boy. He was very angry at fourteen, fifteen, in summer and winter, at home or in the world. So angry that his face contorted in photos. The camera was a question and his face did not know the answer. -- Dave Eggers
He's turned inside out, and is with the Sudanese to find out how to become right again. -- Dave Eggers
The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners. -- Dave Eggers
So this is how they lived. For some time Theo, like a tree living in the shadow of taller trees, found a way to live off reflected light. -- Dave Eggers
Her student loans were voracious and demanded monthly feedings, -- Dave Eggers
We were fools and now we were driving to our deaths in a rental car. Janet Jackson was tinkling from the speakers, asking what we had done for her as of late -- Dave Eggers
There are times when I am concerned about Toph's expression when I'm really singing, with vibrato and all, singing the guitar parts and everything - an expression that to the untrained eye might look like abject terror, or revulsion - but I know well enough that it is awe. -- Dave Eggers
Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time. -- Dave Eggers
The desert wind was strong, and the dust came over the street like fog. Still, two men were sweeping the road. -- Dave Eggers
People move up here pretty reliably, and as you know we hire almost exclusively from within. So -- Dave Eggers
There's less need to slowly acclimate these guys to the tank," Bailey said. "They'll be food pretty soon, so their happiness is less important than the shark's. -- Dave Eggers
He had made a series of foolish decisions in his life. He had not planned well. He had not had courage when he needed it. His decisions had been short sighted. The decisions of his peers had been short sighted. These decisions had been foolish and expedient. -- Dave Eggers
Young men need to be kept away from guns, bombs, women, cars, hard alcohol and heavy machinery. -- Dave Eggers
Recently, I've discovered Radiohead and find them to be quite good. So clearly, I'm some kind of musical retard. (Jonathan Ames, Middle-American Gothic) -- Dave Eggers
You're like part human, part rainbow. -- Dave Eggers
All I ever wanted was to know what to do. -- Dave Eggers
but look at it this way: If you've got the ugliest house on the street, you never have to look at it. -- Dave Eggers
The water was not God. The water undulating slightly with the waves unformed was not spiritual. It was jagged cold water and it felt perfect when we put our hands into it, and it kissed out palms again and again, would never stop kissing our palms - and why wasn't that enough? -- Dave Eggers
But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos. -- Dave Eggers
SECRETS ARE LIES SHARING IS CARING PRIVACY IS THEFT -- Dave Eggers
If [one] could eliminate this kind of uncertainty ... [one] would eliminate most of the stressors of the world, and maybe, too, the wave of despair that was gathering in [her] chest. She'd been feeling this, this black rip, this loud tear, within her. -- Dave Eggers
I just said, 'I hope she can get by with a salary of sixty thousand dollars.' -- Dave Eggers
I am the Olympics. -- Dave Eggers
We are all feeding from each other, all the time, every day. -- Dave Eggers
To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise. -- Dave Eggers
Coming out was so difficult until millions of other men and women came out. Then it got a lot easier, -- Dave Eggers
And now it is boring; here in Tanzania, she is bored. She will die of a crushing monotony before she even has a chance at a high-altitude cerebral edema. - -- Dave Eggers
Yes, a dark time passed over this land, but now there is something like light. -- Dave Eggers
Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane. -- Dave Eggers
You're breaking out of character, again. -- Dave Eggers
The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter. -- Dave Eggers
Once a year, she remembers that she is insignificant. Then she forgets agains, because more than she is insignificant, she is forgetful. -- Dave Eggers
His mind seemed barely tethered to his body, much less the earth. -- Dave Eggers
We have no choice. We need the communion of souls and only here are they awake. -- Dave Eggers
I want to be seen. I want proof I existed. -- Dave Eggers
I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it. -- Dave Eggers
Every act of charity has choice at its core. -- Dave Eggers
Stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to move. -- Dave Eggers
As the crowd stomps the floor for a curtain call, we sneak through the back door and make off like superheroes. -- Dave Eggers
There has not been a beautiful death in the history of mankind. -- Dave Eggers
I was feeling everything too much. Everything pulled at my eyes. I spent hours floating in pools. -- Dave Eggers
Your life has been lived a hundred times. A thousand times. It's not all that great, really. Don't take it so seriously. Don't handle it so delicately. -- Dave Eggers
Are the kids at school?"
"No, they're in the lake. My God. -- Dave Eggers
I really believe strongly that kids should be spared the runoff of their parents' lives and problems. -- Dave Eggers
But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do their homework in front of the TV. -- Dave Eggers
It was not knowing that was the seed of madness, loneliness, suspicion, fear. -- Dave Eggers
But I'm thinking about 12 things at once, a hundred thousand times a day. Most people do, I would imagine. -- Dave Eggers
I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness. -- Dave Eggers
Eliminate lobbyists. Eliminate polls. It might even eliminate Congress. If we can know the will of the people at any time, without filter, without misinterpretation or bastardization, wouldn't it eliminate much of Washington? -- Dave Eggers
ALL THAT HAPPENS MUST BE KNOWN. -- Dave Eggers
It seemed, had some purpose, even if that purpose was just to ask for something. -- Dave Eggers
You can't ever guess at life, at pain. All pain is real, and all pain is personal. It's the most personal thing we have. It eats each of us differently. -- Dave Eggers
They were so in love with the world, and so disappointed in every aspect of it. -- Dave Eggers
When there is pleasure, there is often abandon, and mistakes are made. -- Dave Eggers
People don't like to be kept away from what they want. Especially when it appears within their reach. It makes one doubly angry. -- Dave Eggers
And there is a chance that everything we did was incorrect, but stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people. -- Dave Eggers
The inactive must justify their sloth by picking nits with those making an attempt - -- Dave Eggers
To be described is to be seduced. Shit. One turn of phrase. One thing noticed that she'd never noticed. It works always. -- Dave Eggers
- If it's like us, why is it somewhere else? Deng asked. Dut -- Dave Eggers
Surveillance shouldn't be the tradeoff for any goddamn service we get. -- Dave Eggers
It all meant something. Until it didn't. -- Dave Eggers
The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us. -- Dave Eggers
What can one do with one's hands when the camera is interested in other things? -- Dave Eggers
Nothing in the world sounds worst than that, to be here and safe. -- Dave Eggers