"To write is a humiliation." — Edward Dahlberg

"To write is a humiliation."

— 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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More Humiliation Quotes

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We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Art is born of humiliation. — Wystan Hugh Auden
One man's transparency is another's humiliation. — Gerry Adams
The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever. — Gerry Adams
All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where… — Alain de Botton
Losing your capital is like losing your trousers. It is a real humiliation, and one not to be soon repeated. — James Buchan
Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment… — Jane Campion
With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride. — Corazon Aquino
The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility. — Kathy Acker
There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When… — David Whyte
When I had nothing more to lose, I was given everything. When I ceased to be who I am, I… — Paulo Coelho

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