"I like the dark part of the night,……" — Dave Eggers
"I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it's hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther away. Then I can breathe, and can think while others are sleeping, in a way can stop time, can have it so – this has always been my dream – so that while everyone else is frozen, I can work busily about them, doing whatever it is that needs to be done, like the elves who make the shoes while children sleep."
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182 Quotes by Dave Eggers
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There is travel and there are babies; everything else is drudgery and death.
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