The Earth is an animal that shakes off its fleas when they dig too deep, bite too hard.
Dave EggersLive long enough and you'll disappoint everyone. People think you're able to help them and usually you can't. And so it becomes a process of choosing the one or two people you try hardest not to disappoint. The person in my life I am determined not to disappoint is you.
Dave EggersThe key thing is managed awareness of your role in the world and history. Think too much and you know you are nothing. Think just enough and you know you are small, but important to some. That's the best you can do.
Dave EggersWe've become a nation of indoor cats, he'd said. A nation of doubters, worriers, overthinkers. Thank God these weren't the kind of Americans who settled this country. They were a different breed! They crossed the country in wagons with wooden wheels! People croaked along the way, and they barely stopped. Back then, you buried your dead and kept moving.
Dave EggersStasis is itself criminal for those with the means to move.
Dave EggersI often cannot believe the things I do.
Dave EggersSome days he climbed over the foothills of indifference to see the landscape of his life and future for what it was: mappable, traversable, achievable.
Dave EggersStichwörter: indifference resolve possibilities
He had made a series of foolish decisions in his life. He had not planned well. He had not had courage when he needed it. His decisions had been short sighted. The decisions of his peers had been short sighted. These decisions had been foolish and expedient.
Dave EggersMaybe if he was the sort of man who could eat someone else's hash browns, who the hotel wanted to impress so much they sent him someone else's breakfast, maybe then he was the sort of man who could get an audience with the King.
Dave EggersThe heat was alive, predatory.
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