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The house is a factory.

Dave Eggers

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Dave Eggers
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: March 12
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Boston
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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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Be strong, be brave, be true. Endure.
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There is travel and there are babies everything else is drudgery and death.
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I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning. I just have an affection for paper, and that's no secret, I guess.
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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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Writing is a deep-sea dive. You need hours just to get into it: down, down, down. If you're called back to the surface every couple of minutes by an email, you can't ever get back down. I have a great friend who became a Twitterer and he says he hasn't written anything for a year.
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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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He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?
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Still though, I think if you're not self-obsessed, you're probably boring.
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I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it.
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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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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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I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often.
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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'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 grew up north of Chicago, not far from where the Schwinn bicycle plant used to be, and was conscious of the fact that these beautiful, everlasting bikes were made just down the road.
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We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils.
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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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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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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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