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Edward Dahlberg has 57 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.
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There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because…
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What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise,…
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One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness.
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No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.
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Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the…
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Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given…
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It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which…
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The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and…
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I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.
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We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it…
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Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes…
— Charlie Chaplin
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War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
— Alexander Berkman
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Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
— Thomas Hobbes
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War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not…
— Alexander Berkman
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Today is the first day of the rest of your short, brutish existence as a sentient creature before being snuffed out into…
— Matt Groening
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Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn't…
— Bill Gates
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To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is…
— Isaac Watts
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The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style
— Stella Gibbons
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But alas, the most terrifying aspect of the whole fascist episode is the dark fact that most of its poisons are generated…
— John T. Flynn
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Of all the animals on earth, none is so brutish as man when he seeks the delirium of coition.
— Edward Dahlberg
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short. Death is easy.
— Jacob M. Appel
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