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Secrets are the enablers of antisocial, immoral and destructive behavior. — Dave Eggers

Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal. — 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

We would oppose the turning of the planet and refuse the setting of the sun. — Dave Eggers

Knowledge is a basic human right. Equal access to all possible human experiences is a basic human right. — Dave Eggers

Maybe he was more than the sum of his broken parts. — Dave Eggers

Americans are born knowing everything and nothing. Born moving forward, quickly, or thinking they are. — Dave Eggers

Something about how all this could or would lead to totalitarianism. Her stomach sank. — Dave Eggers

PRIVACY IS THEFT — Dave Eggers

Dan nodded emphatically, as if his mouth had just uttered, independently, something that his ears found quite profound. — Dave Eggers

Hello Frances, I have just been to health class, and I was wondering how your feminine parts were developing. — Dave Eggers

To struggle is to strengthen my faith, my hope and my belief in humanity. — Dave Eggers

Loud it is in here? You hear the echo? - Help! Help! - I'm so disappointed in you, Kev. — Dave Eggers

I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book. — 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

A combination of acting, lying, begging, and cheating. — Dave Eggers

It only takes one person, one small act of stepping from the dark to the light. — Dave Eggers

I really believe strongly that kids should be spared the runoff of their parents' lives and problems. — Dave Eggers

Things that exist exist, and everything is on their side. — 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

Now, you and I both know that if you can control the flow of information, you can control everything. — Dave Eggers

Grief doesn't arrive on schedule, as much as we'd like to. — Dave Eggers

Why shouldn't your curiosity about the world be rewarded? — Dave Eggers

Be strong, be brave, be true. Endure. — Dave Eggers

Don't presume the benevolence of your leaders. — Dave Eggers

I am the Olympics. — Dave Eggers

Here is a drawing of a stapler: — 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

The inactive must justify their sloth by picking nits with those making an attempt - — 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

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

You're like part human, part rainbow. — 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

Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity) — Dave Eggers

Always we learn things and then we forget them. — Dave Eggers

There is travel and there are babies; everything else is drudgery and death. — Dave Eggers

I was feeling everything too much. Everything pulled at my eyes. I spent hours floating in pools. — 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

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

But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them. — 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

Morning comes like a scream through a pinhole. — Dave Eggers

Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation. — Dave Eggers

I live because I do not exist. — 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

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

What had been intriguing on Monday and Tuesday was approaching annoying by Wednesday and exasperating by Thursday. — 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

He's turned inside out, and is with the Sudanese to find out how to become right again. — 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

I didn't care anymore what my ancestors would think. We were the Red Army and needed to eat. — 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

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

Tommy Smothers is my longest mentor, and Dave Eggers is my youngest. — Don Novello

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves. — Dave Eggers

You're breaking out of character, again. — Dave Eggers

We are all feeding from each other, all the time, every day. — 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

I first became familiar with Dave Eggers's work when I was living in San Francisco and enrolled at USF's MFA Program. — James Bernard Frost

People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange. — Dave Eggers

Are the kids at school?"
"No, they're in the lake. My God. — Dave Eggers

His mind seemed barely tethered to his body, much less the earth. — Dave Eggers

Why do we pursue information that we know will never leave our heads? — Dave Eggers

The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter. — 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

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

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

I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'. — 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

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

Ty swept his arms around, encompassing everything around them, the vast campus above. "All this. The fucking shark that eats the world. — Dave Eggers

I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum. — Dave Eggers

As we all know here at the Circle, transparency leads to peace of mind. No longer — 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

The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us. — Dave Eggers

Young men, come and blow things up. — Dave Eggers

( ... ) my problem with paper is that all communication dies with it. It holds no possibility of continuity. — 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

It was not knowing that was the seed of madness, loneliness, suspicion, fear. — Dave Eggers

If your hand doesn't work for it, your heart doesn't feel sorry for it. — 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

I want to be seen. I want proof I existed. — Dave Eggers

This was uncalled for. — Dave Eggers

Still though, I think if you're not self-obsessed, you're probably boring. — Dave Eggers

I am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful and utilitarian. — 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

Why did we do that to Pluto? We had it good with Pluto. — 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

But you already know me pretty well by now! Helena said, and then directed her to her own profile page. — Dave Eggers

Your memory has always been given to opportunistic revision. — 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

People move up here pretty reliably, and as you know we hire almost exclusively from within. So — Dave Eggers

The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners. — 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

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

Alan was feeling strong. He did two push-ups and felt stronger still. — Dave Eggers

and because total non-communication in a place like the Circle was so difficult, it felt like violence. — Dave Eggers

I've never had WiFi at home. I'm too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting. — Dave Eggers

We are unusual and tragic and alive. — 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