Dave Eggers

Quotes by Dave Eggers

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Writer, editor, and publisher · American · 1970

American writer, editor, and publisher (born 1970)

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“You look at pictures of Nepal, push a smile button, and you think that’s the same as going there.”
— Dave Eggers
social social-media

“If things continue this way, there will be two societies - or at least I hope there will be two - the one you're helping create, and an alternative to it. You and your ilk will live, willingly, joy...”
— Dave Eggers
big-brother science social-media

“I mean, all this stuff you're involved in, it's all gossip. It's people talking about each other behind their backs. That's the vast majority of this social media, all these reviews, all these comm...”
— Dave Eggers
internet

“His lies were so exquisite I almost wept.”
— Dave Eggers
deception lying

“You see pictures of Buddha and he’s sitting, reclining, at peace. The Hindus have their twelve-armed elephant god, who also seems so content but not powerless. But leave it to Christians to have a ...”
— Dave Eggers
buddha christians hindus

“It was called the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages. If not for the monks, everything the world had ever learned would have been lost. Well, we live in a similar time, when we're losing the vast majority ...”
— Dave Eggers
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