# Quote — Dave Eggers, The Circle

> "If there's a locked door, I start to make up all kinds of stories about what might be behind it. I feel like it's some kind of secret, and it leads to me making up lies. But if all the doors are open, physically and metaphorically, there's only the one truth."

- Author: [Dave Eggers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dave-eggers.md)
- Book: [The Circle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dave-eggers/the-circle.md)
- Page: 299
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dave_Eggers#The_Circle_(2013)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/dave-eggers/the-circle/if-theres-a-locked

## More from this book

> It was not knowing that was the seed of madness, loneliness, fear. But there were ways to solve all this. Clarity had made her knowable to the world, and had made her better, had brought her close, she hoped, to perfection. Now the world would follow. Full transparency would bring full access, and there would be no more not-knowing. Mae smiled, thinking about how simple it all was, how pure. Bailey shared her smile.

p. 470 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dave-eggers/the-circle/it-was-not.md)

> "It's not that I'm not social. I'm social enough. But the tools you guys create actually manufacture unnaturally extreme social needs. No one needs the level of contact you're purveying. It improves nothing. It's not nourishing. It's like snack food. You know how they engineer this food? They scientifically determine precisely how much salt and fat they need to include to keep you eating. You're not hungry, you don't need the food, it does nothing for you, but you keep eating these empty calories. This is what you're pushing. Same thing. Endless empty calories, but the digital-social equivalent. And you calibrate it so it's equally addictive."

p. 134 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dave-eggers/the-circle/its-not-that.md)

> "Under the guise of having every voice heard, you create mob rule, a filterless society where secrets are crimes."

p. 488 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dave-eggers/the-circle/under-the-guise.md)