{"author":"Dave Eggers","author_id":"Dave+Eggers","total_quotes":102,"quotes":[{"text":"The idea we came up with, well before we left, was something we coined Performance Literature. Excuse the use of that second word, because I realize it's presumptuous. Also, excuse the first word, and the term in general.","author":"Dave Eggers","tags":["apologies","literature"],"id":1207,"author_id":"Dave+Eggers"},{"text":"The country he had left thirty years ago had been a realistic place. There were political realities there, then and now, that precluded blind faith, that discouraged one from thinking that everything, always, would work out fairly and equitably. But he had come to believe such things in the United States. Things had worked out. Difficulties had been overcome. He had worked hard and achieved success. The machinery of government functioned.","author":"Dave Eggers","tags":["america","equity","fairness","government","hard-work","life","united-states","work"],"id":6939,"author_id":"Dave+Eggers"},{"text":"The men who are dropped in a jungle or a desert and expected video games and got mundanity and depravity and friends dying like animals.","author":"Dave Eggers","tags":["animals","depravity","desert","friends","jungle","men","mundanity"],"id":7536,"author_id":"Dave+Eggers"},{"text":"It was like setting up a guillotine in the public square.You don't expect a thousand people to line up to put their heads in it.","author":"Dave Eggers","tags":["privacy","technology","tyranny-of-majority"],"id":9350,"author_id":"Dave+Eggers"},{"text":"I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.","author":"Dave Eggers","tags":["carpe-diem","love"],"id":15383,"author_id":"Dave+Eggers"},{"text":"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 of what we do and see and learn. But it doesn't have to be that way.","author":"Dave Eggers","tags":["distopia","history","information"],"id":21014,"author_id":"Dave+Eggers"},{"text":"I was trying to make the web more civil. I was trying to make it more elegant. I got rid of anonymity. I combined a thousand disparate elements into one unified system. But I didn’t picture a world where Circle membership was mandatory, where all government and all life was channeled through one network.","author":"Dave Eggers","tags":["anonymity","civil","elegant","government","social-media","the-circle","web","world"],"id":30724,"author_id":"Dave+Eggers"},{"text":"For a moment, she thought it natural in a way seeing a plane fall from the sky can seem natural, too. The horror comes later.","author":"Dave Eggers","tags":["horror","natural","plane","sky"],"id":31776,"author_id":"Dave+Eggers"},{"text":"You don’t know what it’s like to be a man over thirty who’s never had anything happen to him. You spend so many years trying to stay safe, stay alive, to avoid some unknown horror. Then you realize the horror is existence itself. The nothing-happening.","author":"Dave Eggers","tags":["existence"],"id":32742,"author_id":"Dave+Eggers"},{"text":"How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting.","author":"Dave Eggers","tags":["america","knowledge"],"id":41359,"author_id":"Dave+Eggers"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":102,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}