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“Your life has been lived a hundred times. A thousand times. It's not all that great, really. Don't take it so seriously. Don't handle it so delicately.”
― Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!

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“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 dead and bloody man nailed to a cross.”
― Dave Eggers, Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?

tags: buddha, christians, hindus

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“I fear that even if it is beautiful in the abstract, that my doing it knowing that it’s beautiful and worse, knowing that I will very soon be documenting it, that in my pocket is a tape recorder brought for just that purpose—that all this makes this act of potential beauty somehow gruesome. I am a monster.”
― Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

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“When we pass by another person without telling them we love them it’s cruel and wrong and we all know this.”
― Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!

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“It's not human. It's not primal. So we don't understand it. It's a more recent mutation. The things we all have, love and hate and passion, and the need to eat and yell and screw, these are things every human has. But there's this new mutation, this ability to stand between a human being and some small measure of justice and blame it on some regulation. To say that the form was filled out incorrectly.”
― Dave Eggers, Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?

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