455 Quotes by Dave Eggers

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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.

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

If you want to write about people, you can make it up. But if you spend time talking to someone and examining what it is you want to write about, you discover a level of detail that you wouldn’t have noticed otherwise.

His mind seemed barely tethered to his body, much less the earth.

I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I’d lose my mind.

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.

As we all know here at the Circle, transparency leads to peace of mind. No longer.

You can’t ever guess at life, at pain. All pain is real, and all pain is personal. It’s the most personal thing we have. It eats each of us differently.