Dave Eggers

But the grind has begun. The windows don’t open, and even the availability of near-constant jokes about Jews and Mormons fails to…

— Dave Eggers

“But we're no longer rain, I said, we're no longer seeds. We're men. Now we can stand and decide. This is our…

— Dave Eggers

“When I rest my head on the couch I know that it's coming, coming like something in the mail, something sent away…

— Dave Eggers

“None of this I'd mine. My father is not mine- not in that way. His death and what he's done are not…

— Dave Eggers

“The flash opened up into something larger, an even more blasphemous notion that her brain contained too much. That the volume of…

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“We are not meant to know everything, Mae. Did you ever think that perhaps our minds are delicately calibrated between the known…

— Dave Eggers

“[Wars] can come in different shapes and guises, but always wars come in increments. I am convinced there are steps, and that…

— Dave Eggers

“Oh I could be out, rollicking in the ripeness of my flesh and others’, could be drinking things and eating things and…

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“the gimmickry is simply a device, a defense, to obscure the black, blinding, murderous rage and sorrow at the core of this…

— Dave Eggers

“You better [start writing] now because you know how to write, and you have fingers, and you have this one life, and…

— Dave Eggers

In all my life I'd never been approached this way, the car pulling up, the Where you going? It was something I…

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“I prayed. I flattened myself under her bed and prayed. My mother sat up, rigid, trembling. The machines flew overhead then away…

— Dave Eggers

“My plans are a jumble for now, but I do know certain things that I will and will not do. [...] I…

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“Everything within takes place after Jack died and before my mom and I drowned in a burning ferry in the cool tannin-tinted…

— Dave Eggers

Do not be critics, you people, I beg you. I was a critic and I wish I could take it all back…

— Dave Eggers

“There's no such thing as "The One", she once said. They were at dinner in Taipei, with a supplier and his wife.…

— Dave Eggers

“Please look. Can you see us? Can you see us, in our little red car? Picture us from above, as if you…

— Dave Eggers

Up there we see everything, Oakland to the left, El Cerrito and Richmond to the right, Marin forward, over the Bay, Berkeley…

— Dave Eggers

“I smiled, though looking at William K caused me concern. He looked very ill, and he was my only mirror. We could…

— Dave Eggers

“You will die, and when you die, you will know a profound lack of it [dignity]. It's never dignified, always brutal. What's…

— Dave Eggers

The voice of the nickly reflection of the moon was not as deep as you might expect. It was a singer’s voice,…

— Dave Eggers

To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports…

— Dave Eggers

“The world, every day, is New. Only for those born in, say, 1870 or so, can there be a meaningful use of…

— Dave Eggers

There's nothing to be gained from passive observance, the simple documenting of conditions, because, at its core, it sets a bad example.…

— Dave Eggers

“A soldier lives . . . ”   A soldier lives a soldier dies a military chaplain sighs   a flag is folded someone cries a…

— Dave Eggers

The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one…

— Dave Eggers

“If things continue this way, there will be two societies - or at least I hope there will be two - the…

— Dave Eggers

“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…

— Dave Eggers