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Dave Eggers quotes about beautiful

American Writer January 8, 1970

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I feel like a parent whose children prefer to stay inside and watch TV. The father pleads, "It's a beautiful day. Why don't you go play outside?" In this case, I feel like pleading, "It's a completely spooky night. Forget the loud music--come outside and have a blood sacrifice or something! There's a full moon!" (Jonathan Ames, Middle-American Gothic) Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers quote: "There has not been a beautiful death in the history of mankind."
There has not been a beautiful death in the history of mankind. Dave Eggers
Not that there seems to be any appropriate place to bury someone, but these municipal cemeteries, or any cemetery at all for that matter, like the ones by the highway, or the ones in the middle of town, with all these bodies with their corresponding rocks - oh it's just too primitive and vulgar, isn't it? The hole, and the box, and the rock on the grass? And we glamorize this process, feel it fitting and dramatic, austerely beautiful, standing there by the hole as we lower the box. It's... Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers quote: "We see the beauty within and cannot say no."
We see the beauty within and cannot say no. Dave Eggers

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