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Dave Eggers
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: March 12
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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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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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Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again it takes so much out of you.
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And there is a chance that everything we did was incorrect, but stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.
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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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Write your goddamned book now. The world awaits.
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All I ever wanted was to know what to do.
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I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning.
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Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.
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You have what I can afford to give. You are a panhandler, begging for anything, and I am the man walking briskly by, tossing a quarter or so into your paper cup. I can afford to give you this. This does not break me.
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