“If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.”

— Dave Eggers, book A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Source: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

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memoirist, novelist, short story writer, editor, publisher 1970

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