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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
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
Loud it is in here? You hear the echo? - Help! Help! - I'm so disappointed in you, Kev.
— 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
I really believe strongly that kids should be spared the runoff of their parents' lives and problems.
— 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
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
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
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
Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.
— Dave Eggers
You're breaking out of character, again.
— 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
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
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'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
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
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
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
and because total non-communication in a place like the Circle was so difficult, it felt like violence.
— Dave Eggers
We are unusual and tragic and alive.
— Dave Eggers