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Dave Eggers is an American writer, born on March 12, 1970. He is known for his unique narrative style and his focus on social issues. His notable works include 'A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius' and 'The Time Traveler's Wife'.

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Famous Dave Eggers Quotes

“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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Author:Dave Eggers

“We've lost that very simple transaction that's so pure, where a reader can say, "I support what you're doing, here's my dollar. I know that you guys are gonna be watchdogs or keep the government accountable, so here's my 50-cent contribution each day." It's just so tidy, and I think so inspiring.”

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Author:Dave Eggers

“All I ever wanted was to know what to do.”

Knows Wanted

Book:You Shall Know Our Velocity

Source: You Shall Know Our Velocity

“There's nothing to be gained from passive observance, the simple documenting of conditions, because, at its core, it sets a bad example. Every time something is observed and not fixed, or when one has a chance to give in some way and does not, there is a lie being told, the same lie we all know by heart but which needn't be reiterated.”

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Book:You Shall Know Our Velocity

Source: You Shall Know Our Velocity

“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”

Thinking Knows Wanted Rivers Thrown Cranky

Author:Dave Eggers

“Why do we pursue information that we know will never leave our heads?”

Knows Information Pursue

Book:How We Are Hungry

Source: How We Are Hungry

“My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full thrust, the churning does not stop. The machines do not rest, the systems rarely cool. And while I can forget anything of any importance--this is why people tell me secrets--my mind has an uncanny knack for organization when it comes to pain. Nothing tormenting is ever lost, never even diminished in color or intensity or quality of sound.”

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Author:Dave Eggers

“If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.”

Ifs Knows Want Wells Might Space Existence Air Harsh Killing Yourself Harsh Truth

Book:A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Source: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

“Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity)”

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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.”

Knows Want Made Done Whole Able Stuff Yeah Lifetime Boat Sail

Book:You Shall Know Our Velocity

Source: You Shall Know Our Velocity

“The key thing is managed awareness of your role in the world and history. Think too much and you know you are nothing. Think just enough and you know you are small, but important to some. That's the best you can do.”

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Book:A Hologram for the King

Source: A Hologram for the King

“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.”

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Book:The Circle

Source: The Circle

“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.”

People Knows World Moments Bigs Might Heard Trade Significant Remembered

Author:Dave Eggers

“You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher”

Knows Years Hours Levels Attention Students Higher Grades Proven One On One

Author:Dave Eggers

“Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time.”

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Author:Dave Eggers

“When you're in your twenties in a new city where no one's from here, we're all sort of orphans. The only people that you can count on our bunch of people that you work with and that you know. You're only as good as the reliability of that latticework.”

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“But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos.”

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“I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything; I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper.”

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Author:Dave Eggers

“The weird thing is that working within an established story was actually kind of liberating. You know the beginning and middle and end, more or less, so there's less pressure to figure all that out.”

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Author:Dave Eggers

“When I was on the bestseller list with the first book, everyone who knows me knows that every week it continued to be on the list was a very dark week for me. Everyone knows that all I wanted was to be off that list.”

Knows Firsts Book Wanted Dark Week Lists Know Me

Author:Dave Eggers

“You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they're smart people. But you don't throw at them the trappings of adulthood and you know, the darker stuff.”

People Ifs Knows Kids Stuff Smart Adults Treats Adulthood Smart People

Author:Dave Eggers

About the Author

Born: March 12, 1970
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 251

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