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Dave Eggers Quotes

Total quotes: 12
“I give you virtually everything I have. I give you all the best things I have, and while these things are things that I like, memories that I treasure, good or bad, like the pictures of my family on my walls, I can show them to you without diminishing them. I can afford to give you everything.”
— Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Tagged: Love, romance, Loving, Courtship, expressing feelings, Expressing Love
“I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.”
— Dave Eggers, What Is the What
Tagged: Love, Waiting, Patience, Time, right time
“We are unusual and tragic and alive.”
— Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Tagged: People, Living, Experience, Being Different, Broken People, broken but living, Life
“Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?”
— Dave Eggers, The Circle
Tagged: Career, Dreams, goal, Career Advice, career path, Life, life choices, Decisions, Inspirational
“I’m better than you think. I’m even better than I think I am.”
— Dave Eggers, The Wild Things
“I don’t hold on to anything anymore. Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It’s just not my thing anymore.”
— Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Tagged: Holding On, Pain
“When we pass by another person without telling them we love them it’s cruel and wrong and we all know this.”
— Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!You Shall Know Our Velocity!
Tagged: Love, Sadness
“The elegance of it all, the ideological purity of the Circle, of real transparency, gave her peace, a warming feeling of logic and order.”
— Dave Eggers, The Circle
Tagged: Logical Purity, Descriptions of the Danger of Organization, Archive Fever
“You’re gonna save all the souls. You’re gonna get everyone in one place, you’re gonna teach them all the same things. There can be one morality, one set of rules. Imagine!”
— Dave Eggers, The Circle
Tagged: Secular Theology, Transparency, Ethics
“Your tools have elevated gossip, hearsay and conjecture to the level of valid, mainstream communication.”
— Mercer, The Circle
Tagged: Gawking, Gawker, Here Come Everyone, Mobs Rule, Interent Culture
“We are not meant to know everything, Mae. Did you ever think that perhaps our minds are delicately calibrated between the known and the unknown? That our souls need the mysteries of night and the clarity of day? You people are creating a world of ever-present daylight, and I think it will burn us all alive.”
— Mercer, The Circle
Tagged: Knowledge, Epistemology, Too Much Information, Information Overload
“Under the guise of having every voice heard, you create mob rule, a filterless society where secrets are crimes.”
— Dave Eggers, The Circle
Tagged: Mobs, All Voices Heard, Interent Trolls
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