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Browsing Quotes By Dave Eggers

  • Why does it give so much comfort to be responsible for someones sleep? We all – don’t we? – want creatures sleeping in our homes while we walk about, turning off lights.

    Speaker: Dave Eggers
    Source: How We Are Hungry
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 26 Nov 2009 at 8:58 PM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: humanity, intimacy, kindness
    Shared By: 2 members; winswmlik, Puck

  • Why do we pursue information that we know will never leave our heads? I was inviting a permanent, violent guest into my home. He would defecate on my bed. He would shred my clothes, light fires on the walls. I could see him walking up the driveway and I stood at the door, knowing that I’d be a fool to bring him inside. But I still opened the door.

    Speaker: Dave Eggers
    Source: How We Are Hungry
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 26 Nov 2009 at 8:56 PM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: curiosity, knowledge, self-destruction
    Shared By: 2 members; drmccadexavie, Puck

  • She liked that idea, God being in all things that she could see, because she liked seeing things and wanted to believe in these things that she loved looking at – loved the notion that it was all here and easily observable, with ones eyes being in some way the clergy, the connection between God and –

    Speaker: Dave Eggers
    Source: How We Are Hungry
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 26 Nov 2009 at 8:52 PM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: beauty, pantheism, religion
    Shared By: 4 members; winswmlik, sdressfancy, drmccadexavie, Puck

  • This story is equally or more about surfing. People are no more interesting than waves and mountains.

    Speaker: Dave Eggers
    Source: How We Are Hungry
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 26 Nov 2009 at 8:50 PM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: beauty, humor, writing

  • She always wanted to have some Native American blood in her, just as everyone else does, because with that blood, she thought, stupidly, would come nobility, as would excuses to do things the wrong way, or not do them at all, or do anything she wanted. But instead she is Irish or possibly even Welsh but not in any tangible sense, and thus born without any sorrow in the lives of her recent ancestors, and so she had to smile gratefully and create good things from scratch or perhaps just save people from skin disease.

    Speaker: Dave Eggers
    Source: How We Are Hungry
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 26 Nov 2009 at 8:48 PM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: race, society