Dave Eggers Quotes

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• WHEN we don't get the results we want in our military endeavors, we don't blame the soldiers.
• Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal.
• You might not be able to operate your own Learjet and have an unlimited expense account, but if you have a reasonable expectation for a…
• Do not be critics, you people, I beg you. I was a critic and I wish I could take it all back because it came…
• It was always difficult to get cattle returned once a marriage was dissolved.
• 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…
• 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,…
• Writing is a deep-sea dive. You need hours just to get into it: down, down, down. If you're called back to the surface every couple…
• 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
• We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.
• The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.
• There is travel and there are babies; everything else is drudgery and death.
• We have no choice. We need the communion of souls and only here are they awake.
• Every time my brain parks the car neatly in the driveway, my mouth drives through the back of the garage.
• It was called the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages. If not for the monks, everything the world had ever learned would have been lost. Well,…
• I'm better than you think. I'm even better than I think I am.
• Write your goddamned book now. The world awaits.
• 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…
• Why shouldn’t your curiosity about the world be rewarded?
• 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…

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