A Hologram for the King

Dave Eggers

Top 10 Best Quotes

“It all meant something. Until it didn't.”

“Live long enough and you'll disappoint everyone. People think you're able to help them and usually you can't. And so it becomes a process of choosing the one or two people you try hardest not to disappoint. The person in my life I am determined not to disappoint is you.”

“The key thing is managed awareness of your role in the world and history. Think too much and you know you are nothing. Think just enough and you know you are small, but important to some. That's the best you can do.”

“Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.”

“We've become a nation of indoor cats, he'd said. A nation of doubters, worriers, overthinkers. Thank God these weren't the kind of Americans who settled this country. They were a different breed! They crossed the country in wagons with wooden wheels! People croaked along the way, and they barely stopped. Back then, you buried your dead and kept moving.”

“They were so in love with the world, and so disappointed in every aspect of it.”

“Think too much and you know you are nothing. Think just enough and you know you are small, but important to some. That's the best you can do.”

“The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners.”

“Maybe he was more than the sum of his broken parts.”

“Some days he climbed over the foothills of indifference to see the landscape of his life and future for what it was: mappable, traversable, achievable.”

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