Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore. Dave Eggers More Quotes by Dave Eggers More Quotes From Dave Eggers WHEN we don't get the results we want in our military endeavors, we don't blame the soldiers. Dave Eggers military teaching soldier Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot. Dave Eggers youth eye looks It all meant something. Until it didn't. Dave Eggers No one’s forcing you to do this. You willingly tie yourself to these leashes. And you willingly become utterly socially autistic. You no longer pick up on basic human communication clues. You’re at a table with three humans, all of whom are looking at you and trying to talk to you, and you’re staring at a screen, searching for strangers in Dubai. Dave Eggers dubai communication ties Now I'm in nonfiction. To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be a graphic novel, so that will have to be that way. There's always that matching of the content and the form, and that means everything to me. I spend years thinking about what that match is going to be before I can really make it work. Dave Eggers begging mean thinking I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S. Dave Eggers mean book lying The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter. Dave Eggers reading school needs 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 Dave Eggers car done asking Morning comes like a scream through a pinhole. Dave Eggers scream morning If your hand doesn't work for it, your heart doesn't feel sorry for it. Dave Eggers sorry heart hands But that in any city, in any cluster of people, there a few people who are awake at this hour, who are both awake and dancing, and it’s here that we need to be. Dave Eggers dancing cities people Nonfiction narratives are really powerful and valid in themselves. But one thing that you don't get sometimes from the more clinical or academic books or nonfiction books is that you don't get to hear the person's voice; you don't get them as individuals. You get a few quotes and you hear them as sort of a case study: numbers, examples, anecdotes, maybe a paragraph here, and that's about it. Dave Eggers voice powerful book 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. Dave Eggers bags hate feelings 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. Dave Eggers dream life children I always had a hard time with fiction. It does feel like driving a car in a clown suit. You're going somewhere, but you're in costume, and you're not really fooling anybody. You're the guy in costume, and everybody's supposed to forget that and go along with you. Obviously, it can work, it works all the time - well, it doesn't always work. Still, no matter what, I'm always looking at the form and addressing it, not ignoring it. Dave Eggers suits-you hard-times car And there is a chance that everything we did was incorrect, but stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people. Dave Eggers mean people moving Why do you want to be on The Real World? Dave Eggers real want world How many times in life can we make decisions that are important but will not hurt anyone? Are we obligated- maybe we are- to say yes to any choice when no one will be hurt? We use the word hurt when talking about things like this because when these things go wrong it can feel as if you were hit in the sternum by a huge animal that's run for miles just to strike you. Dave Eggers hurt running animal We are the bright new stars born of a screaming black hole, the nascent suns burst from the darkness, from the grasping void of space that folds and swallows--a darkness that would devour anyone not as strong as we. We are oddities, sideshows, talk show subjects. We capture everyone's imagination. Dave Eggers oddities stars strong If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air. Dave Eggers space air want
