Forgotten Quote by Dave Eggers

“I had forgotten that, and so many things. How could I put everything down on paper? It seemed impossible. No matter what, the majority of life would be left out of this story, this sliver of a version of the life I'd known. But I tried anyway.”

Dave Eggers

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (7 ratings)

Forgotten Impossible Left out Life Majority Matter Paper Stories Sudan Would be

More by Dave Eggers

“4. THE CRUMBLING WALL (Hamburger, prepared medium well, with bacon and barbecue sauce. Courtesy of that place on Solano, where, it should be mentioned,…

Dave Eggers

Image

“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 it to…

Dave Eggers

Image

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

Dave Eggers

Image

“One button for the rest of your life online.”

Dave Eggers

Image

We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will…

Dave Eggers

Image

I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum.

Dave Eggers

Image

“Overnight, all comment boards became civil, all posters held accountable. The trolls, who had more or less overtaken the internet, were driven back into…

Dave Eggers

Image

“Have we wasted precious space dust on you?”

Dave Eggers

Image

“What can one do with one's hands when the camera is interested in other things?”

Dave Eggers

Image

“The money that could have saved the Shuttle, and the money we send to random countries, that we use to remake unchangeable countries ten…

Dave Eggers

Image

Write your goddamned book now. The world awaits.

Dave Eggers

Image

The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us.

Dave Eggers

Image

Explore all 429 Dave Eggers quotes

More Forgotten quotes

While the 1963 Birmingham church bombing is the most historic, there also was a series of church burnings in the 1990s. Recognition of the…

Anthea Butler

Image

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

David Ogden Stiers

Image

I was just going to say something, but I forgot when I started looking at you.

Anonymous

Image

Black women's intersectional experiences of racism and sexism have been a central but forgotten dynamic in the unfolding of feminist and antiracist agendas.

Kimberle Williams Crenshaw