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Dave Eggers Inspirational Quotes (105)

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I had forgotten that, and so many things. How could I put everything down on paper? It seemed impossible. No matter what, the majority of life would be left out of this story, this sliver of a version of the life I'd known. But I tried anyway.
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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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Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal.
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I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.
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Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.
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In hospitals I feel palpable comfort. I feel the competence, the expertise, so much education and money, all of the supplies sterile, everything packaged, sealed tight. My fears evaporate when the automatic doors shush open.
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I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.
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I'll always be working on five things at once, usually with those documents open at the same time because if I get stuck somewhere I'll jump over to something else. That's how my head has always worked.
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She felt some measure of relief knowing that in the very least, on the open road she would have some time to think.
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People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.
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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.
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Suffering is only suffering if it’s done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in view of loving millions, was no longer pain. It was communion.
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Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics.
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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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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.
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When I was on the bestseller list with the first book, everyone who knows me knows that every week it continued to be on the list was a very dark week for me. Everyone knows that all I wanted was to be off that list.
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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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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.
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It all meant something. Until it didn't.
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I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I'd lose my mind.
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She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the past, and when she does, she remembers things, and her new journal entries become, for the most part, reactions to the days she regrets, wants to correct, rewrite.
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But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.
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Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic.
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One might think that a boy who was out in the snow for so long would get cold, but Max was not. He was warm, partly because he had on many layers, and partly because boys who are part wolf and part wind do not get cold.
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