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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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When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?
— Julie Burchill
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The newspaper has debauched the American until he is a slavish, simpering, and angerless citizen; it has taught him to be a…
— Edward Dahlberg
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I hate all those flirty-birty games that women make up. Life's too short. If you ever find a man you love, don't…
— Betty Smith
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I'm wild again, beguiled again, a whimpering, simpering child again. Bewitched, bothered, bewildered am I.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary…
— Jonathan Franzen
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I'm wild again, beguiled again. A whimpering, simpering child again. Bewitched, bothered and bewildered, am I.
— Beegie Adair
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