Circle Dave Eggers Quotes

#1. Every time someone started shouting about the supposed monopoly of the Circle, or the Circle's unfair monetization of the personal data of its users, or some other paranoid and demonstrably false claim, soon enough it was revealed that that person was a criminal or deviant of the highest order.

Dave Eggers

#2. As we all know here at the Circle, transparency leads to peace of mind. No longer

Dave Eggers

#3. and because total non-communication in a place like the Circle was so difficult, it felt like violence.

Dave Eggers

#4. Public-private leads to private-private, and soon you have the Circle running most or even all government services,

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#5. To douchebags!" he said, gesturing to Brad. "And to girls that break your heart," he bowed his head to me. His eyes lost focus. "And to the absolute fucking horror of losing your best friend because you were stupid enough to fall in love with her.

Jamie McGuire

#6. Ty swept his arms around, encompassing everything around them, the vast campus above. "All this. The fucking shark that eats the world.

Dave Eggers

#7. So many people who wanted no part of all this. That's what's new. There used to be the option of opting out. But now that's over. Completion is the end. We're closing the circle around everyone - it's a totalitarian nightmare.

Dave Eggers

#8. A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds.

Deborah Kass

#9. When I see something that's wrong, I just speak and act first and I'll take the consequences later.

Felix Dennis

#10. I'd figure out ways to use role-playing in the healing of people.

Kerry Washington

#11. Outside the walls of the Circle, all was noise and struggle, failure and filth. But here, all had been perfected. The best people had made the best systems and the best systems had reaped funds, unlimited funds,

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#12. Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

Voltaire

#13. I've talked to so many people, men and women alike, that get overweight and their self-esteem just goes in the tank. They think they're judged. They think they're unattractive.

Phil McGraw

#14. Likewise, everyone at the Circle there had been chosen, and thus the gene pool was extraordinary, the brainpower phenomenal. It was a place where everyone endeavored, constantly and passionately, to improve themselves, each other, share their knowledge, disseminate it to the world.

Dave Eggers

#15. It was a sad place, especially after a day at the Circle, where all was made with care and love and the gift of a good eye.

Dave Eggers