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Dave Eggers
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Dave Eggers
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: March 12
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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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People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.
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All I ever wanted was to know what to do.
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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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He wanted to fly in lightweight contraptions with her.
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No one’s forcing you to do this. You willingly tie yourself to these leashes. And you willingly become utterly socially autistic. You no longer pick up on basic human communication clues. You’re at a table with three humans, all of whom are looking at you and trying to talk to you, and you’re staring at a screen, searching for strangers in Dubai.
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The weird thing is that working within an established story was actually kind of liberating. You know the beginning and middle and end, more or less, so there's less pressure to figure all that out.
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To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise. The web model is just so much more complicated, and involves this third party of advertisers, and all these other sources of revenue that are sort of provisional, but haven't been proven yet.
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Every time my brain parks the car neatly in the driveway, my mouth drives through the back of the garage.
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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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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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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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The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before.
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Write your goddamned book now. The world awaits.
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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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Morning comes like a scream through a pinhole.
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Still though, I think if you're not self-obsessed, you're probably boring.
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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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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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