"People are strange, but more than that, they're……" — Dave Eggers
"People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange."
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182 Quotes by Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers has 182 quotes on this site.
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WHEN we don't get the results we want in our military endeavors, we don't blame the soldiers.
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Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal.
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You might not be able to operate your own Learjet and have an unlimited expense account, but if you have…
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Do not be critics, you people, I beg you. I was a critic and I wish I could take it…
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It was always difficult to get cattle returned once a marriage was dissolved.
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Suffering is only suffering if it’s done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in view of loving millions,…
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The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next…
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Writing is a deep-sea dive. You need hours just to get into it: down, down, down. If you're called back…
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You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one…
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We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.
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The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.
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There is travel and there are babies; everything else is drudgery and death.
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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
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