Dave Eggers

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#dignity #dignity

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#travel #velocity #humor

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

— Dave Eggers

#love

This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#love

He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith? ↗

— Dave Eggers

#faith #hurricane-katrina #nonfiction #faith

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 ↗

— Dave Eggers

#life

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. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#pain #life

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

#humor #death

No. There is no balance, and no retribution, and no rules. The rules and balances you blather about are hopeful creations of a man fearing death. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#death #god #life #death

Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#life