"Dave Eggers is a prince among men when it comes to writing deeply felt, socially conscious books that meld reportage with fiction. While A Hologram for the King is fiction...it's a strike against the current state of global economic injustice."

-- Elissa Schappell

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“We are not seeking to impose a recall.”
“I was doing a Broadway play, and I was really new to this business. The Broadway play was my first job, literally. The play next door was a musical called Falsettos. The director got hired to direct this Michael J. Fox movie and was looking for a kid who could play brash and salty and mean [in Life With Mikey].”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood; like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard powerless to stop it. It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you are telling it, to yourself or to someone else.”
“It was good to learn so early. They're not going to be kind to you. You have to do it and get on, and then gulp down and get better.”
“Up, you mighty race, accomplish what you will.”
“People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction.”
“There is only one ultimate and effectual preventative for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death.”

Source : The Medical Career and Other Papers 'Medicine at the
“I don't know what I'll be like when I'm 60. I already have the traits of a retired gentleman.”

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