"What has a writer to be bombastic about?……" — Edward Dahlberg
"What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is more surprised than an honest writer when he makes a good phrase or says something truthful."
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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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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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The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace,…
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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
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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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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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