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Your memory has always been given to opportunistic revision.Dave Eggers
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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.Dave Eggers
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—Don’t you think the vast majority of the chaos in the world is caused by a relatively small group of disappointed men?——— I don’t know. Could be.— The men who haven’t gotten the work they expected to get. The men who don’t get the promotion they expected. 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. These men can’t be left to mix with the rest of society. Something bad always happens.Dave Eggers
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If you don’t have something grand for men like us to be part of, we will take apart all the little things. Neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Building by building. Family by family.Dave Eggers
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Who says we don’t want to be inspired? We fucking want to be inspired! What the fuck is wrong with us wanting to be inspired? Everyone acts like it’s some crazy idea, some outrageous ungrantable request. Don’t we deserve grand human projects that give us meaning?Dave Eggers
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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.Dave Eggers
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You and I read the same books and hear the same sermons and we come away with different messages. That has to be evidence of some serious problem, right?Dave Eggers
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You see pictures of Buddha and he’s sitting, reclining, at peace. The Hindus have their twelve-armed elephant god, who also seems so content but not powerless. But leave it to Christians to have a dead and bloody man nailed to a cross.Dave Eggers
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The death of a young person for no reason is an apocalypse.Dave Eggers