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Michelle’s Quotes

“The death of a young person for no reason is an apocalypse.”
― Dave Eggers, Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?

tags: apocalypse, death, young-person

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“How much can you change and get away with it, before you turn into someone else, before it's some kind of murder?”
― Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

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“I would know that in any city, at an hour like this, there are people sleeping. That most people are sleeping. But that in any city, in any cluster of people, there are a few people who are awake at this hour, who are both awake and dancing, and it's here that we need to be. That if we are living as we were this week, that we had to be awake with the people who were still dancing.”
― Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!

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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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“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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