"A painter can hang his pictures, but a……" — Edward Dahlberg

"A painter can hang his pictures, but a writer can only hang himself."

— Edward Dahlberg

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57 Quotes by Edward Dahlberg

Edward Dahlberg has 57 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless…
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…
What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck,…
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…
Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either…
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before…
The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce…
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…

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This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays. — Douglas Adams
The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I… — Roseanne Barr
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to… — John Adams
There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being… — Drew Barrymore
I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
I love my fan base because they never high-five me; they always get really shifty and hide. Adam Sandler's fan… — Kate Beckinsale
I have insecurities of course, but I don't hang out with anyone who points them out to me. — Adele
Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful. — Jeff Bezos
My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest… — David Blaine
The thing that makes my generation The Greatest is our ability to hang out. We're spectacular at it. If you… — Lewis Black

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