"Though man is the only beast that can……" — Edward Dahlberg
"Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident."
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Edward Dahlberg
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57 Quotes by Edward Dahlberg
Edward Dahlberg has 57 quotes on this site.
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We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless…
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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…
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What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck,…
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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…
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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…
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It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before…
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The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce…
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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…
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Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.
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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
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I had - after I sang the 'Star Spangled Banner' so badly, after my tragic singing accident, after that, you…
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No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at…
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What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will…
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that…
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The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They…
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There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
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U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do,…
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It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's…
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