Dave Eggers Short Quotes

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The pain is not great. But the symbolism is disagreeable.

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I was feeling everything too much. Everything was pulling at my eyes.

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Why do we pursue information that we know will never leave our heads?

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When there is pleasure, there is often abandon, and mistakes are made.

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If your hand doesn't work for it, your heart doesn't feel sorry for it.

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There is no faith like the faith of a builder of homes in coastal Louisiana

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We would oppose the turning of the planet and refuse the setting of the sun.

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What are we allowed to do when we're looking for things we're required to do?

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The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners.

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It was always difficult to get cattle returned once a marriage was dissolved.

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Yes, a dark time passed over this land, but now there is something like light.

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We have no choice. We need the communion of souls and only here are they awake.

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Ooh, look at me, I'm Dave, I'm writing a book! With all my thoughts in it. La la la!

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People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.

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Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane.

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It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.

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Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

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She pulls away, pats me on the shoulder with three mini-pats, like those used to pet reptiles.

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'Listen John—'
'Who's John?'
'You're John.'
'I'm John?'
'Yeah, I changed your name.'

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

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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

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Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

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There are people who meet strangers and people, like me, who know only those they've known from birth

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Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic.

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Toph does not know the words, and I know few of the words, but you cannot fucking stop us from singing

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