“I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done. I had one of those yesterday: seven hours of self-loathing.” NeedsSelfDoneHoursMinutesSevenEightYesterdayLoathingWork DoneSelf Loathing Author:Dave Eggers
“I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it's hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther away. Then I can breathe, and can think while others are sleeping, in a way can stop time, can have it so – this has always been my dream – so that while everyone else is frozen, I can work busily about them, doing whatever it is that needs to be done, like the elves who make the shoes while children sleep.” ThinkingWayLifeNeedsChildrenI CanDoneDreamNightDarkSleepFourHarderShoesBreatheThirtyMidnightFrozenHollowCeilingsSleeping InStop Time Book:A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Picador Classic Source: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Picador Classic
“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” DoneCarFoolLateAskingDrivingSpeakersCar Rental Book:You Shall Know Our Velocity Source: You Shall Know Our Velocity
“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.” KnowsWantMadeDoneWholeAbleStuffYeahLifetimeBoatSail Book:You Shall Know Our Velocity Source: You Shall Know Our Velocity
“You know how you finish a bag of chips and you hate yourself? You know you’ve done nothing good for yourself. That’s the same feeling, and you know it is, after some digital binge. You feel wasted and hollow and diminished.” KnowsFeelsDoneFeelingsHateKnow HowBagsDigitalChipsHollowBinge Book:The Circle Source: The Circle
“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.” IfsDonePainSufferingViewsSilenceMillionsSolitudeCommunion Book:The Circle Source: The Circle
“Also, I need deadlines, just like everybody else, especially coming from magazines, newspapers, and stuff like that. I need daily or weekly deadlines to get stuff done, or I continue to do things and not go off on a year of unproductivity.” NeedsYearsDoneStuffNewspapersMagazinesDeadline Author:Dave Eggers
