Dave Eggers Quotes

I was feeling everything too much. Everything was pulling at my eyes.

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• 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. That if we are living as we were this week, that we had to be awake with the people who are still dancing.

  

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  • People
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• 'What would transparency be if we could delete anything we felt was embarrassing in some way? You know we don't delete.'

  

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• 'I understand that we're obligated, as humans, to share what we see and know. And that all knowledge must be democratically accessible.''It's the natural state of information to be free.'

  

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  • Free
  • Knowledge

• Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot. Though it causes me frequent pain, I find it very easy to place myself in the shoes of almost any boy, and can conjure my own youth with an ease that is troublesome.

  

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

  

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  • Remember
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• . . . I’ll raise my arms and give you my chest and throat and wait, and I’ve been so old for so long for you, for you, I want it fast and right through me- Oh do it, do it you motherfuckers do it you fuckers finally, finally, finally.

  

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  • Long

• Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.

  

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  • Writing
  • Experience
  • College

• 'Under the guise of having every voice heard, you create mob rule, a filterless society where secrets are crimes.'

  

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  • Society

• 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.

  

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  • Business
  • Book
  • Effort

• 'If there's a locked door, I start to make up all kinds of stories about what might be behind it. I feel like it's some kind of secret, and it leads to me making up lies. But if all the doors are open, physically and metaphorically, there's only the one truth.'

  

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  • Up
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• 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.

  

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  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• 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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  • Time
  • Jump

• 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.

  

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  • Work

• What did we want? We want the world smaller and bigger and just the same but advancing. We don’t know what we want.

  

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  • World

• I was a looker someone who looked over at every car at every traffic light, hoping something would happen, and almost never finding anyone looking back- always everyone looking forward, and every time I felt stupid. Why should people look over at you? Why would they care?

  

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  • People
  • Time
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• 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.

  

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  • World
  • Hope
  • Respect

• 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.

  

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  • Home
  • Kids
  • Attention

• I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.

  

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  • Book
  • House

• SECRETS ARE LIESSHARING IS CARINGPRIVACY IS THEFT

  

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• Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic.

  

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  • Small
  • Tree
  • December

• But I'm thinking about 12 things at once, a hundred thousand times a day. Most people do, I would imagine.

  

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  • People
  • Thinking

• You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time.

  

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  • Time
  • Parents
  • Listening

• 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.

  

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  • Women
  • Powerful

• I was feeling everything too much. Everything was pulling at my eyes.

  

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  • Feeling
  • Eyes