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Dave Eggers Inspirational Quotes (105)

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I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.
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Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
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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.
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You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher
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He wanted to fly in lightweight contraptions with her.
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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.
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I'm never a fan of the sociopathic kind of reviewing, people who are sort of self-immolating and have social problems or whatever, and let it out in literary-criticism form. I just feel like book reviewing should be respectful and calm and not filled with bile.
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Maybe he was more than the sum of his broken parts.
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So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.
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A funny thing happened on the way to utopia: We've turned into this surveillance society and become a race of spies, where we track our kids and we track our spouses and we track our friends. I think very soon there will be an obsolescence of trust, because it's much easier to access a person's location than it is to ask - or to trust.
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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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When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen.
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Why shouldn’t your curiosity about the world be rewarded?
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High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list. Make it collaborative: The students will feel ownership, and everyone will dig in.
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But I'm thinking about 12 things at once, a hundred thousand times a day. Most people do, I would imagine.
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If you think I'm annoying and preachy now, you should have known me in grade school.
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Be strong, be brave, be true. Endure.
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We would oppose the turning of the planet and refuse the setting of the sun.
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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.
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I often cannot believe the things I do.
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The air is like being wanted, we say, and they nod approvingly. The air is like getting older, they say, and they touch our arms gently.
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Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.
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I think there's a future where the Web and print coexist and they each do things uniquely and complement each other, and we have what could be the ultimate and best-yet array of journalistic venues.
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The key thing is managed awareness of your role in the world and history. Think too much and you know you are nothing. Think just enough and you know you are small, but important to some. That's the best you can do.
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