QUOTES by Dave Eggers
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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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"It was as if, for a moment, she thought Mae was one kind of person, but now, knowing she was another, she could part with her, she could give her back to the world."
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"The Earth is an animal that shakes off its fleas when they dig too deep, bite too hard. It shifts and our cities fall; it sighs and the coasts are overtaken."
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"But without William K, I would have forgotten that I had not been born on this journey. That I had lived before this."
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"People don't like to be kept away from what they want. Especially when it appears within their reach. It makes one doubly angry."
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"The Earth is an animal that shakes off its fleas when they dig too deep, bite too hard."
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"There is no faith like the faith of a builder of homes in coastal Louisiana"
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"The peculiar problem of constant connectivity: any silence of more than a few hours provokes apocalyptic thoughts."
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"The issue is complex, but like many matters in Sudan, it is not as complex as Khartoum would want the west to believe."
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"Recently, I've discovered Radiohead and find them to be quite good. So clearly, I'm some kind of musical retard. (Jonathan Ames, Middle-American Gothic)"
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"The air is like being wanted, we say, and they nod approvingly. The air is like getting older, they say, and they touch our arms gently."
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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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"When we pass by another person without telling them we love them it’s cruel and wrong and we all know this."
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"She pulls away, pats me on the shoulder with three mini-pats, like those used to pet reptiles."
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"Nothing again. No one is listening. No one is waiting to hear the kicking of a man above. It is unexpected. You have no ears for someone like me."
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"The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners."
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"But that's one lifetime." Yeah." But while doing that one I'd want to be able to have done other stuff. Whole other lives- the one where I sail-" I know, on a boat you made yourself."
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"(...) my problem with paper is that all communication dies with it. It holds no possibility of continuity."
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"No. There is no balance, and no retribution, and no rules. The rules and balances you blather about are hopeful creations of a man fearing death."
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"Hello Frances, I have just been to health class, and I was wondering how your feminine parts were developing."
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"This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos."
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"We were fools and now we were driving to our deaths in a rental car. Janet Jackson was tinkling from the speakers, asking what we had done for her as of late"
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"It only takes one person, one small act of stepping from the dark to the light."
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"First of all, I know it’s all people like you. And that’s what’s so scary. Individually you don’t know what you’re doing collectively."
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"I lost someone very close to me and afterward I believed I could have saved him had I been a better friend to him. But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them."
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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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"Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes."
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"Your life has been lived a hundred times. A thousand times. It's not all that great, really. Don't take it so seriously. Don't handle it so delicately."
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"It was not knowing that was the seed of madness, loneliness, suspicion, fear."
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"They were so in love with the world, and so disappointed in every aspect of it."
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"Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know. --After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned"
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"My head was a condemned church with a ceiling of bats, but I swung from this dark mood to euphoria when I thought about leaving."
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