Dave Eggers quotes

Dave Eggers is an American writer, editor, and publisher, renowned for his memoir "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius." His innovative literary style and activism have earned him widespread acclaim. He has also founded several organizations supporting literacy and social causes. Here are 153 of his quotes:

You can't ever guess at life, at pain. All pain is real, and all pain is personal. It's the most personal thing we have. It eats each of us differently.

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But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.

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Most people would trade everything they know, everyone they know- they'd trade it all to know they've been seen, and acknowledged, that they might even be remembered. We all know we die. We all know the world is too big for us to be significant. So all we have is the hope of being seen, or heard, even for a moment.

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When we pass by another person without telling them we love them it's cruel and wrong and we all know this.

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

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And we will be ready, at the end of every day will be ready, will not say no to anything, will try to stay awake while everyone is sleeping, will not sleep, will make the shoes with the elves, will breathe deeply all the time, breathe in all the air full of glass and nails and blood, will breathe it and drink it, so rich, so when it comes we will not be angry, will be content, tired enough to go, gratefully, will shake hands with everyone, bye, bye, and then pack a bag, some snacks, and go to the volcano.

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

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Openness is all, she thought. Truth was its own reward.

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Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot. Though it causes me frequent pain, I find it very easy to place myself in the shoes of almost any boy, and can conjure my own youth with an ease that is troublesome.

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It all meant something. Until it didn't.

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Why do you want to be on The Real World? -Because I want everyone to witness my youth Why? -Isn't it gorgeous?

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If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.

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Still though, I think if you're not self-obsessed, you're probably boring.

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But of course there's no logic to San Francisco generally, a city built with putty and pipe cleaners, rubber cement and colored construction paper. It's the work of fairies, elves, happy children with new crayons.

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If there's a locked door, I start to make up all kinds of stories about what might be behind it. I feel like it's some kind of secret, and it leads to me making up lies. But if all the doors are open, physically and metaphorically, there's only the one truth.

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It's not that I'm not social. I'm social enough. But the tools you guys create actually manufacture unnaturally extreme social needs. No one needs the level of contact you're purveying. It improves nothing. It's not nourishing. It's like snack food. You know how they engineer this food? They scientifically determine precisely how much salt and fat they need to include to keep you eating. You're not hungry, you don't need the food, it does nothing for you, but you keep eating these empty calories. This is what you're pushing. Same thing. Endless empty calories, but the digital-social equivalent. And you calibrate it so it's equally addictive.

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We cannot fathom why people would stand across the street, easily a hundred feet away, when they could be so close, near us. ‘Suckers.' I tell Toph, thumbing toward those watching from so far away. It is important, I feel, that the boy knows what suckers look like.”.

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I understand that we're obligated, as humans, to share what we see and know. And that all knowledge must be democratically accessible." "It's the natural state of information to be free.

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We are unusual and tragic and alive.

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Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don't, right?

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Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let's not forget this.

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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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