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The house is a factory.

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Dave Eggers
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: March 12
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Boston
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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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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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We would oppose the turning of the planet and refuse the setting of the sun.
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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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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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