The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013 Quotes

“You don’t propose marriage after one date. You don’t decide on a career after one article or class session. You don’t cast your vote based on one opinion of the candidate in question. Stories, essays, novels, and memoirs all deserve to be, indeed have to be read multiple times. Every writer worth his or her salt knows that writing is rewriting. Every reader should know the same thing about understanding text: that is, real reading is rereading.”
― Dave Eggers, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013

“A soldier lives . . . ”   A soldier lives a soldier dies a military chaplain sighs   a flag is folded someone cries a general tells the truth or lies   a politician simplifies a voice vote echoes only ayes   reporters ask for hows and whys a spokesman has to improvise   some doctrine somehow still applies negotiators compromise   or don’t as one more soldier dies.   —Robert West”
― Dave Eggers, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013

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― Dave Eggers, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013

“I survived long enough to remember saying yes to life and “no” or at least “slow down” to a slow death.”
― Dave Eggers, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013