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Dave Eggers Quotes

born 1970 United States

Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor and publisher.

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Also known as: Eggers, Dave

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"Under the guise of having every voice heard, you create mob rule, a filterless society where secrets are crimes."

The Circle (2013)

"When everything is known, everything acceptable will be accepted."

The Circle (2013)

Openness is all, she thought. Truth was its own reward.

The Circle (2013)

The pain is not great. But the symbolism is disagreeable.

What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng (2006)

"What would transparency be if we could delete anything we felt was embarrassing in some way? You know we don't delete."

The Circle (2013)

"I understand that we're obligated, as humans, to share what we see and know. And that all knowledge must be democratically accessible."
"It's the natural state of information to be free."

The Circle (2013)

When we pass by another person without telling them we love them it’s cruel and wrong and we all know this.

You Shall Know Our Velocity! (2002)

What are we allowed to do when we’re looking for things we’re required to do?

You Shall Know Our Velocity! (2002)

There are people who meet strangers and people, like me, who know only those they’ve known from birth

You Shall Know Our Velocity! (2002)

Hand took a breath and opened his palms, as if accepting the gift of rain. "YOU SHALL KNOW OUR VELOCITY!" he bellowed into the cold exhausted city.

You Shall Know Our Velocity! (2002)

Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot. Though it causes me frequent pain, I find it very easy to place myself in the shoes of almost any boy, and can conjure my own youth with an ease that is troublesome.

What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng (2006)

"If there's a locked door, I start to make up all kinds of stories about what might be behind it. I feel like it's some kind of secret, and it leads to me making up lies. But if all the doors are open, physically and metaphorically, there's only the one truth."

The Circle (2013)

I was feeling everything too much. Everything was pulling at my eyes.

You Shall Know Our Velocity! (2002)

Toph does not know the words, and I know few of the words, but you cannot fucking stop us from singing

A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius (2000)

Ooh, look at me, I’m Dave, I’m writing a book! With all my thoughts in it. La la la!

A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius (2000)

We sleep when we fall. We only sleep when we can’t move anymore. That’s juvenile. But it means everything. It’s the illusion of progress. Staying awake isn’t progress. The illusion is enough.

You Shall Know Our Velocity! (2002)

"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."

The Circle (2013)

Matter of fact, the first three or four chapters are all some of you might want to bother with. That gets you to page 123 or so, which is a nice length, a nice novella sort of length.

A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius (2000)

‘Listen John—’
‘Who’s John?’
‘You’re John.’
‘I’m John?’
‘Yeah, I changed your name.’

A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius (2000)

What did we want? We want the world smaller and bigger and just the same but advancing. We don’t know what we want.

You Shall Know Our Velocity! (2002)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Dave Eggers (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.