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“We are unusual and tragic and alive.”
-- Dave Eggers

#Alive #Unusual #Tragic
“Nonfiction narratives are really powerful and valid in themselves. But one thing that you don't get sometimes from the more clinical or academic books or nonfiction books is that you don't get to hear the person's voice; you don't get them as individuals. You get a few quotes and you hear them as sort of a case study: numbers, examples, anecdotes, maybe a paragraph here, and that's about it.”
-- Dave Eggers

#Powerful #Book #Voice
“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

#Love #Carpe Diem #Thinking
“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Letâ€™s not forget this.”
-- Dave Eggers

#Book #Unique #Stopping
“But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.”
-- Dave Eggers

#Matter #Disappear
“Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.”
-- Dave Eggers

#Watches #Use #Minutes
“We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.”
-- Dave Eggers

#Would Be #Absurd #Extraordinary Things
“I had the sensation that I might always be running like this, that I would always have to run, and that I would always be able to run.”
-- Dave Eggers

#Running #Might #Able
“I hung up the phone, jubilant, and threw myself into a wall, then pretended to be getting electrocuted. I do this when I'm very happy.”
-- Dave Eggers

#Wall #Phones #Very Happy
“Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot.”
-- Dave Eggers

#Eye #Looks #Youth
“The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us.”
-- Dave Eggers

#Taken #Life Is
“3. There are bears and there are small dogs. Be strong like bear! If they take out your teeth, sit on the dogs. Bears always forget they can just sit on the dogs. Sit on the dogs.”
-- Dave Eggers

#Dog #Strong #Teeth
“We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare and wonderful. It's almost historically unprecedented. We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.”
-- Dave Eggers

#Fall #Ambition #Luxury
“I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.”
-- Dave Eggers

#Book #Thinking #Depth
“I was feeling everything too much. Everything pulled at my eyes. I spent hours floating in pools.”
-- Dave Eggers

#Eye #Feelings #Floating
“It is no way to live, to wait to love.”
-- Dave Eggers

#Waiting #Way
“We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will steal his soul, we identify our secrets, our past and their blotches, with our identity, that revealing our habits or losses or deeds somehow makes one less of oneself.”
-- Dave Eggers

#Loss #Past #Soul
“My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full thrust, the churning does not stop. The machines do not rest, the systems rarely cool. And while I can forget anything of any importance--this is why people tell me secrets--my mind has an uncanny knack for organization when it comes to pain. Nothing tormenting is ever lost, never even diminished in color or intensity or quality of sound.”
-- Dave Eggers

#Pain #Color #Wings
“I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S.”
-- Dave Eggers

#Lying #Book #Mean
“Morning comes like a scream through a pinhole.”
-- Dave Eggers

#Morning #Scream
“She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the past, and when she does, she remembers things, and her new journal entries become, for the most part, reactions to the days she regrets, wants to correct, rewrite.”
-- Dave Eggers

#Regret #Past #Doe
“Be strong, be brave, be true. Endure.”
-- Dave Eggers

#Strong #Brave #Endure
“Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time.”
-- Dave Eggers

#Smart #Kids #Light
“And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands more students.”
-- Dave Eggers

#Home #People #Able
“At that moment I was sure. That I belonged in my skin. That my organs were mine and my eyes were mine and my ears, which could only hear the silence of this night and my faint breathing, were mine, and I loved them and what they could do.”
-- Dave Eggers

#Healing #Eye #Night
“He wanted to fly in lightweight contraptions with her.”
-- Dave Eggers

#Wanted
“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

#Paper #Matter #Majority
“Nothing again. No one is listening. No one is waiting to hear the kicking of a man above. It is unexpected. You have no ears for someone like me.”
-- Dave Eggers

#Men #Waiting #Listening
“This boy thinks I am not of his species, that I am some other kind of creature, one that can be crushed under the weight of a phone book. The pain is not great, but the symbolism is disagreeable.”
-- Dave Eggers

#Pain #Book #Boys
“Every part of my body felt electric. My chest ached and my head throbbed with the great terrible limitless possibility of the morning, and when it came, the sky was washed white, everything was new, and I hadn't slept at all.”
-- Dave Eggers

#Morning #Sky #White

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