"We are a most solitary people, and we……" — Edward Dahlberg
"We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain."
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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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More Cain Quotes
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Let me tell you what the Cain Doctrine would be, as it relates to Israel if I were president. You…
— Herman Cain
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...there's nothin' in life that's worth doin', if it cain't be done from a horse...
— Unknown Author
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The sentence of the first murderer was pronounced by the Supreme Judge of the universe. Was it death? No, it…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
— Abraham Cowley
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James Cain - faugh! Everything he touches smells like a billygoat. He is every kind of writer I detest, a…
— Raymond Chandler
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How do you beat Obama? Beat him with a Cain!
— Herman Cain
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That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knave jowls it to the ground, as…
— William Shakespeare
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Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of those arts,…
— John Donne
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Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain, /May be refin'd and join th' angelic train.
— Phillis Wheatley
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The American people have entered upon the mightiest civic struggle known to their history. ... The Golden Rule is rejected by…
— James B. Weaver
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The Jews' guilt of the crucifixion of Jesus consigned them to perpetual servitude, and, like Cain, they are to be…
— Pope Innocent III
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So Ham's wife that was preserved on the Ark was a Negro of the seed of Cain and there was…
— Warren Jeffs
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