When there is pleasure, there is often abandon, and mistakes are made. Dave Eggers More Quotes by Dave Eggers More Quotes From Dave Eggers Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves. Dave Eggers scarveseccentriccute My head was a condemned church with a ceiling of bats, but I swung from this dark mood to euphoria when I thought about leaving. Dave Eggers leavingchurchdark All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. ~ on the friends we choose. Dave Eggers impressiveboringwant The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us. Dave Eggers our-livestakenlife-is We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will steal his soul, we identify our secrets, our past and their blotches, with our identity, that revealing our habits or losses or deeds somehow makes one less of oneself. Dave Eggers soullosspast I hung up the phone, jubilant, and threw myself into a wall, then pretended to be getting electrocuted. I do this when I'm very happy. Dave Eggers very-happywallphones At that moment I was sure. That I belonged in my skin. That my organs were mine and my eyes were mine and my ears, which could only hear the silence of this night and my faint breathing, were mine, and I loved them and what they could do. Dave Eggers eyehealingnight It is no way to live, to wait to love. Dave Eggers way-to-livewaitingway Every time a crime was committed by a Muslim, that person's faith was mentioned, regardless of its relevance. When a crime is committed by a Christian, do they mention his religion? ... When a crime is committed by a black man, it's mentioned in the first breath: 'An African American man was arrested today...' But what about German Americans? Anglo Americans? A white man robs a convenience store and do we hear he's of Scottish descent? In no other instance is the ancestry mentioned. Dave Eggers white-manchristianmen But I'm thinking about 12 things at once, a hundred thousand times a day. Most people do, I would imagine. Dave Eggers imaginepeoplethinking We are all feeding from each other, all the time, every day. Dave Eggers feeding She felt some measure of relief knowing that in the very least, on the open road she would have some time to think. Dave Eggers reliefknowingthinking 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. Dave Eggers chaosdadcaring People say I talk slowly. I talk in a way sometimes called laconic. The phone rings, I answer, and people ask if they've woken me up. I lose my way in the middle of sentences, leaving people hanging for minutes. I have no control over it. I'll be talking, and will be interested in what I'm saying, but then someone-I'm convinced this what happens-someone-and I wish I knew who, because I would have words for this person-for a short time, borrows my head. Like a battery is borrowed from a calculator to power a remote control, someone, always, is borrowing my head. Dave Eggers control-someonephonestalking Why did we do that to Pluto? We had it good with Pluto. Dave Eggers pluto 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 Dave Eggers levelsattentionyears I think there's a future where the Web and print coexist and they each do things uniquely and complement each other, and we have what could be the ultimate and best-yet array of journalistic venues. Dave Eggers printcoexistthinking I often cannot believe the things I do. Dave Eggers believe All I ever wanted was to know what to do. Dave Eggers knowswanted My parents told me they were going to kill me at least a thousand times growing up. "I'm gonna kill you," and then they'd whack me on the side of the head or whatever. And "What's wrong with you?" And "I'm gonna lock you up," and "I'm gonna throw you out the window," and "I'm gonna kill you." You know, all these things that you say in the heat of a normal chaotic household. Dave Eggers growing-upparentwindow
