"We are unusual and tragic and alive."

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Source : Dave Eggers (2013). “A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

Dave Eggers

#Alive Quotes #Unusual Quotes #Tragic Quotes

“My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.”

Source : "Thanks, Dad, for Believing in Me Before I Did" by Candace Parker, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2011.
“The danger of these collaborations across disciplines is in having too strict of a division of labor - in my case, of getting stuck doing the music. When I make an album, I write music, I write lyrics, I come up with the visual design, etc. I get to do all of that stuff.”

Source : Interview with Nick Hallett, logger.believermag.com. May 16, 2013.
“I'm very flash and burn - the first thing that comes to mind is obviously the best idea, and that's because it should come out of a natural place, and if you don't do that then you're writing someone else's music, not your own.”
“For all mankind that unstained scroll unfurled, Where God might write anew the story of the World.”

Source : Edward Everett Hale (1903). “"We, the People": A Series of Papers on Topics of Toda”
“Women's liberationists spread the word that the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.”
“Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time”
“Time, the ultimate arbiter of what is of value in life...”

Source : Aaron David Miller (2014). “The End of Greatness: Why America Can't Have (and Doesn't Want) Another Great President”, p.6, Palgrave Macmillan
“All my best girlfriends play guitar now, which is kind of a funny world to live in.”

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