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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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Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.
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Successful hunting, it could be said, is an act of terminal empathy: the kill depends on how successfully a hunter inserts himself…
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We often hear Islamists declare, 'We love death as much as you people in the west love life.' Well, if we're going…
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But I think the only thing that annoys me about that is if I suddenly find someone on commercial radio or something…
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The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.
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I am afraid. I am not solid, but hollow. I feel behind my eyes a numb, paralyzed cavern, a pit of hell,…
— Sylvia Plath
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There is an authentic biology of hope. Belief and expectation - the key elements of hope - can block pain by releasing…
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There are three types of biomimicry - one is copying form and shape, another is copying a process, like photosynthesis in a…
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I loved the opportunity to just transform my voice. I loved the idea of doing impressions and mimicking and playing around with…
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Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean.
— Charlie Munger
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I like the fact that by mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way - one…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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Mimicking people was something I did already.
— Jane Horrocks
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