I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know. --After I Was Thrown in the River… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. ~… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Your life has been lived a hundred times. A thousand times. It's not all that great, really. Don't take it so seriously.… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
You can't ever guess at life, at pain. All pain is real, and all pain is personal. It's the most personal thing… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“He had made a series of foolish decisions in his life. He had not planned well. He had not had courage when… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I had forgotten that, and so many things. How could I put everything down on paper? It seemed impossible. No matter what,… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Alan had never been stabbed or shot or punctured or broken. Were scars the best evidence of living? If we have not… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Some days he climbed over the foothills of indifference to see the landscape of his life and future for what it was:… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Live long enough and you'll disappoint everyone. People think you're able to help them and usually you can't. And so it becomes… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Hand, nobody told me about the weight. Why didn't our parents tell us about the weight? —What weight? —The fucking weight, Hand.… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
In all my life I'd never been approached this way, the car pulling up, the Where you going? It was something I… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
We're in an era where they've sanitized home life in movies to such a degree that there is a certain home life… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Why was he alive on Earth? Very often the meaning was obscured. Very often it required some digging. The meaning of his… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“I was born into a town and a family and the town ad my family happened to me. I own none of… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it's hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
How many times in life can we make decisions that are important but will not hurt anyone? Are we obligated- maybe we… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“In her life Josie had heard only one or two people apologize. Wasn't that something? Wouldn't that be significant to future anthropologists?… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Oh I could be out, rollicking in the ripeness of my flesh and others’, could be drinking things and eating things and… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“The world, every day, is New. Only for those born in, say, 1870 or so, can there be a meaningful use of… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“I prayed. I flattened myself under her bed and prayed. My mother sat up, rigid, trembling. The machines flew overhead then away… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Then why are you talking about exhibitionism? It's a ridiculous term. Someone wants to celebrate their existence and you call it exhibitionism.… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“4. THE CRUMBLING WALL (Hamburger, prepared medium well, with bacon and barbecue sauce. Courtesy of that place on Solano, where, it should be mentioned,… — Dave Eggers Copy Share
“LOW-FLYING, QUICK-MOVING CLOUDS: I haven't long to live. TREETOPS, ROUNDED AND ROUGH: That's probably true. LOW-FLYING, QUICK-MOVING CLOUDS: I won't even make it to… — Dave Eggers Copy Share
But the grind has begun. The windows don’t open, and even the availability of near-constant jokes about Jews and Mormons fails to stem the… — Dave Eggers Copy Share
We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will… — Dave Eggers Copy Share
I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum. — Dave Eggers Copy Share
“Overnight, all comment boards became civil, all posters held accountable. The trolls, who had more or less overtaken the internet, were driven back into… — Dave Eggers Copy Share
“What can one do with one's hands when the camera is interested in other things?” — Dave Eggers Copy Share
“The money that could have saved the Shuttle, and the money we send to random countries, that we use to remake unchangeable countries ten… — Dave Eggers Copy Share
The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us. — Dave Eggers Copy Share
“First of all: I am tired. I am true of heart! And Also: You are tired. You are true of heart!” — Dave Eggers Copy Share
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… — Dave Eggers Copy Share
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.… — Dave Eggers Copy Share
