Dave Eggers Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

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  Regret, Past, Needs

  Dave Eggers (2007). “How the Water Feels to the Fishes”

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• The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before.

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  Couple, Keys, Light

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

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  Feeding

  Dave Eggers (2013). “A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story”, p.404, Simon and Schuster

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• It is no way to live, to wait to love.

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  Waiting, Way To Live, Way

  Dave Eggers (2011). “What is the What”, p.408, Penguin UK

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• When we pass by another person without telling them we love them it’s cruel and wrong and we all know this.

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  Persons, Knows

  "You Shall Know Our Velocity". Book by Dave Eggers, 2002.

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• I see colors like you hear jet planes.

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  Color, Jet Planes, Like You

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

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  Love Is, Insane, Connections

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• I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done. I had one of those yesterday: seven hours of self-loathing.

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  Self, Yesterday, Eight

  "Dave Eggers: From 'staggering genius' to America's conscience" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2010.

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• I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I'd lose my mind.

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  Ideas, People, Mind

  Dave Eggers (2013). “A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Pain, Views, Silence

  Dave Eggers (2013). “The Circle”, p.362, Vintage

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• There is travel and there are babies; everything else is drudgery and death.

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  Baby, Travel, Drudgery

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• Once a year, she remembers that she is insignificant. Then she forgets agains, because more than she is insignificant, she is forgetful.

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  Years, Remember, Forget

  Dave Eggers (2007). “How the Water Feels to the Fishes”

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• No one’s forcing you to do this. 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, searching for strangers in Dubai.

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  Communication, Ties, Dubai

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• We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will steal his soul, we identify our secrets, our past and their blotches, with our identity, that revealing our habits or losses or deeds somehow makes one less of oneself.

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  Loss, Past, Soul

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• I often cannot believe the things I do.

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  Believe

  Dave Eggers (2011). “What is the What”, p.533, Penguin UK

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• 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.

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  Stuck, Documents, Five

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• 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

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  Children, Cities, San Francisco

  Dave Eggers (2000). “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius”

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• I'm better than you think. I'm even better than I think I am.

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  Thinking, Better Than You

  Dave Eggers (2009). “The Wild Things”, p.126, Vintage

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• 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.

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  Kids, Different, Needs

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• Be strong, be brave, be true. Endure.

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  Strong, Brave, Endure

  Dave Eggers (2010). “Zeitoun”, p.132, Vintage

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• 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.

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  Cities, People, Twenties

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• Yes, a dark time passed over this land, but now there is something like light.

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  Dark, Light, Land

  Dave Eggers (2010). “Zeitoun”, p.372, Vintage

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• 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?

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  Have Faith, Rebuilding, Building

  Dave Eggers (2010). “Zeitoun”, p.371, Vintage

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• There is no faith like the faith of a builder of homes in coastal Louisiana

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  Home, Louisiana, Coastal

  Dave Eggers (2010). “Zeitoun”, p.371, Vintage

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• I went to Saudi Arabia in 2010, and spent most of my time in Jeddah and the King Abdullah Economic City.

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  Kings, Cities, Arabia

  "Dave Eggers: 'We tend to look everywhere but the mirror' - interview". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2013.

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