Edward Dahlberg Quotes

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• We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies…
• We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.
• There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel,…
• What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is…
• One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness.
• No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.
• Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon,…
• Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral…
• It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as…
• The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near…
• I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.
• We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result…
• The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts…
• Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion and they are…
• We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.
• Evil, which is our companion all our days, is not to be treated as a foe. It is wrong to cocker vice, but we grow…
• A painter can hang his pictures, but a writer can only hang himself.
• Woman is the most superstitious animal beneath the moon. When a woman has a premonition that Tuesday will be a disaster, to which a man…
• The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.
• The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.

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