Top 18 The 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. I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other things, but that in the meantime I'd do plays.
Gael Garcia Bernal
#5. Public-private leads to private-private, and soon you have the Circle running most or even all government services,
Dave Eggers
#6. We know that sensory phenomena are transcribed in the photographic emulsion in such a way that even if there is a causal link with the real phenomena, the graphic images can be considered as wholly arbitrary with respect to these phenomena.
Umberto Eco
#7. Ty swept his arms around, encompassing everything around them, the vast campus above. "All this. The fucking shark that eats the world.
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#8. The very first audition, you just go in and sing. The second one, they give you this sort of cheapy, Walmart-looking puppet - before they give you the $6,500 'Avenue Q' puppet.
Rob McClure
#9. 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
#10. Commercial concerns have expanded from family business to corporate wealth which is self-perpetuating and which enlightened statesmen and economists now dread as the most potent oligarchy yet produced.
Helen Keller
#11. At the Olympic Games, it isn't the most beautiful or strongest who are crowned, but those who compete.
Aristotle.
#12. The wheat bought by a farmer to sow is comparatively a fixed capital to the wheat purchased by a baker to make into loaves.
David Ricardo
#13. 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,
Dave Eggers
#15. made myself guilty of mass murder so I could be proclaimed innocent of incompetence.
Joe Abercrombie
#16. A person doesn't die from this or that disease. He dies from his whole life.
Norman Fischer
#17. 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
#18. 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