Dave Eggers quotes - page 2

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves. (Dave Eggers)
We see the beauty within and cannot say no. View quote
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We are all feeding from each other, all the time, every day. View quote
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Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity) View quote
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You invite things to happen. You open the door. You inhale. And if you inhale the chaos, you give the chaos, the chaos gives back. View quote
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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. View quote
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It is no way to live, to wait to love. View quote
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I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I'd lose my mind. View quote
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I see colors like you hear jet planes. View quote
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Once a year, she remembers that she is insignificant. Then she forgets agains, because more than she is insignificant, she is forgetful. View quote
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Be strong, be brave, be true. Endure. (Dave Eggers)
Every time my brain parks the car neatly in the driveway, my mouth drives through the back of the garage. View quote
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Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils. View quote
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But what I really want is to just swim around in a warm baby pool of these friends, jump in their dry leaf pile-to rub them all over myself, without words and clothes. View quote
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All I ever wanted was to know what to do. View quote
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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. View quote
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Why did we do that to Pluto? We had it good with Pluto. View quote
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And there is a chance that everything we did was incorrect, but stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people. (Dave Eggers)
You know how you finish a bag of chips and you hate yourself? You know you've done nothing good for yourself. That's the same feeling, and you know it is, after some digital binge. You feel wasted and hollow and diminished. View quote
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But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defies easy categorization. View quote
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You have what I can afford to give. You are a panhandler, begging for anything, and I am the man walking briskly by, tossing a quarter or so into your paper cup. I can afford to give you this. This does not break me. View quote
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Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic. View quote
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