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Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal.
Dave Eggers
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Dave Eggers
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: March 12
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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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If you think I'm annoying and preachy now, you should have known me in grade school.
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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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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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Loneliness is just a thing that I'm not personally interested in. So far, it hasn't been on my docket of things to write about.
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My voice and movements are restricted by the things I own.
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