Dave Eggers

“Who says we don’t want to be inspired? We fucking want to be inspired! What the fuck is wrong with us wanting…

— Dave Eggers

“Cancer walked all over my father, in large part because he opened the door, turned on the porch light, and invited it…

— Dave Eggers

“Their howls rose to the sky and twisted together until they were on, and the other beasts joined in too, all of…

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“You see pictures of Buddha and he’s sitting, reclining, at peace. The Hindus have their twelve-armed elephant god, who also seems so…

— Dave Eggers

You have what I can afford to give. You are a panhandler, begging for anything, and I am the man walking briskly…

— Dave Eggers

“He had made a series of foolish decisions in his life. He had not planned well. He had not had courage when…

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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…

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“Well now you're contradicting yourself. With balance there cannot be chaos. With randomness there can be no punishment. You're pleading for punishment…

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“the waterfall, and the tiki torches, all of these things the stuff of vacations and dreams and impossible to maintain, but then…

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“[M]y mother read a horror novel every night. She had read every one in the library. When birthdays and Christmas would come,…

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“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

“I am your shower curtain and I am watching you. I surround you, I shield you, and I like you. I like…

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“But I'm a believer in the perfectibility of human beings. I think we can be better. I think we can be perfect…

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And we will be ready, at the end of every day will be ready, will not say no to anything, will try…

— Dave Eggers

“That the volume of information, of data, of judgements, of measurements, was too much, and there were too many people, and too…

— Dave Eggers

“He tried to calm his thoughts, but everything came back to what he'd almost done. Because he hadn't done anything, for years…

— Dave Eggers

“It occurred to her, in a moment of sudden clarity, that what had always caused her anxiety, or stress, or worry, was…

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There are many Saudi women doctors, and there are many wealthy and powerful and well-educated Saudi women who circumvent the restrictions put…

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“But when friends would ask Kathy whether they, too, should start their own business, she talked them out of it. You don’t…

— Dave Eggers

“Kit, you say your mother hasn't changed, but she has. A hundred times she's changed. It's important to know with adults, thought…

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We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare…

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And there is a chance that everything we did was incorrect, but stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to…

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“There would be a time when the world created people stronger than them. When all of this got worked out. But until…

— Dave Eggers

I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend…

— Dave Eggers

You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they're smart people. But you don't…

— Dave Eggers

I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still…

— Dave Eggers

Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for…

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“But while Sasha told us that in America even the most successful men can have but one wife at once--my father had…

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But what I really want is to just swim around in a warm baby pool of these friends, jump in their dry…

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“What he had was a sense that few things mattered much. That few people are to be feared. And so he now…

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“You willingly tie yourself to these leashes. And you willingly become utterly socially autistic. You no longer pick up on basic human…

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“The water was not God. The water undulating slightly with the waves unformed was not spiritual. It was jagged cold water and…

— Dave Eggers

“I cannot count the times I have cursed our lack of urgency. If I ever love again, I will not wait to…

— Dave Eggers

“If you don’t have something grand for men like us to be part of, we will take apart all the little things.…

— Dave Eggers

“If [one] could eliminate this kind of uncertainty... [one] would eliminate most of the stressors of the world, and maybe, too, the…

— Dave Eggers

High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list.…

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“The author would also like to acknowledge makers of comic book villains and superheroes, those who invented, or at least popularized, the…

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“Who were these people, all of them young couples, a few fabulous ones, tall thin-haired blondes with toned men in perfectly pressed…

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“What matters is that you do good work. What matters is that you produce things that are true and will stand. What…

— Dave Eggers

“What would happen," Zeitoun asked the captain, "if you and I went below the deck, and just went to our bedrooms and…

— Dave Eggers