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Dave Eggers Quotes

Total quotes: 9
“I don’t hold on to anything anymore. 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, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Tagged: Holding On, Pain
“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, The Circle
Tagged: Career, Dreams, goal, Career Advice, career path, Life, life choices, Decisions, Inspirational
“When we pass by another person without telling them we love them it’s cruel and wrong and we all know this.”
— Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!You Shall Know Our Velocity!
Tagged: Love, Sadness
“We are unusual and tragic and alive.”
— Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Tagged: People, Living, Experience, Being Different, Broken People, broken but living, Life
“You’re gonna save all the souls. You’re gonna get everyone in one place, you’re gonna teach them all the same things. There can be one morality, one set of rules. Imagine!”
— Dave Eggers, The Circle
Tagged: Secular Theology, Transparency, Ethics
“Your tools have elevated gossip, hearsay and conjecture to the level of valid, mainstream communication.”
— Mercer, The Circle
Tagged: Gawking, Gawker, Here Come Everyone, Mobs Rule, Interent Culture
“I’m better than you think. I’m even better than I think I am.”
— Dave Eggers, The Wild Things
“I give you virtually everything I have. I give you all the best things I have, and while these things are things that I like, memories that I treasure, good or bad, like the pictures of my family on my walls, I can show them to you without diminishing them. I can afford to give you everything.”
— Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Tagged: Love, romance, Loving, Courtship, expressing feelings, Expressing Love
“We are not meant to know everything, Mae. 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? You people are creating a world of ever-present daylight, and I think it will burn us all alive.”
— Mercer, The Circle
Tagged: Knowledge, Epistemology, Too Much Information, Information Overload
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