39 Quotations by Edward Dahlberg
- 21. Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspire ...
- 22. So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time t ...
- 23. The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines ...
- 24. The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll wit ...
- 25. The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We hav ...
- 26. There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the colde ...
- 27. There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
- 28. Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of ...
- 29. Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters s ...
- 30. To write is a humiliation.
- 31. Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine h ...
- 32. We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of ...
- 33. We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and make ...
- 34. We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even w ...
- 35. We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.
- 36. What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of acciden ...
- 37. What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore.
- 38. When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.
- 39. Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
Edward Dahlberg Quotes by Power Quotations
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