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All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed on the friends we choose. (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Quotes)
Dave Eggers
Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.
Dave Eggers
Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
Dave Eggers
I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I’d lose my mind.
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.
Dave Eggers
If you don’t want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You’re taking up space, air.
Dave Eggers
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
We are all feeding from each other, all the time, every day.
Dave Eggers
We are the bright new stars born of a screaming black hole, the nascent suns burst from the darkness, from the grasping void of space that folds and swallows–a darkness that would devour anyone not as strong as we. We are oddities, sideshows, talk show subjects. We capture everyone’s imagination.
Dave Eggers
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
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
We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils.
Dave Eggers
