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Edward Dahlberg quotes: I have no confidence in a man whose faults you cannot see.

I have no confidence in a man whose faults you cannot see.

Edward Dahlberg quotes: A man who can be entertaining for a full day will be in his grave by night-fall.

A man who can be entertaining for a full day will be in his grave by night-fall.

Edward Dahlberg quotes: To write is a humiliation.

To write is a humiliation.

Edward Dahlberg quotes: No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.

No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.

Edward Dahlberg quotes: Nobody heard her tears; the heart is a fountain of weeping water which makes no noise in the world.

Nobody heard her tears; the heart is a fountain of weeping water which makes no noise in the world.

Edward Dahlberg quotes: Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one.

Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one.

Edward Dahlberg quotes: Man pines to live but cannot endure the days of his life.

Man pines to live but cannot endure the days of his life.

Edward Dahlberg quotes: We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism.

We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism.

Edward Dahlberg quotes: Narcissus never wrote well nor was a friend.

Narcissus never wrote well nor was a friend.

Edward Dahlberg quotes: I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.

I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.

Edward Dahlberg quotes: Bosch is great because what he imagines in color can be translated into justice.

Bosch is great because what he imagines in color can be translated into justice.

Edward Dahlberg quotes: Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Edward Dahlberg quotes: Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.

Edward Dahlberg quotes: The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.

The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.

Edward Dahlberg quotes: Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

Edward Dahlberg quotes: We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

Edward Dahlberg quotes: One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness.

One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness.

Edward Dahlberg quotes: Who has enough credit in this world to pay for his mistakes?

Who has enough credit in this world to pay for his mistakes?

Edward Dahlberg quotes: It takes a long time to understand nothing.

It takes a long time to understand nothing.

Edward Dahlberg quotes: It is hideous and coarse to assume that we can do something for others-and it is vile not to endeavor to do it.

It is hideous and coarse to assume that we can do something for others-and it is vile not to endeavor to do it.

Edward Dahlberg quotes: The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.

Edward Dahlberg quotes: We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

Edward Dahlberg quotes: The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.

The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.

Edward Dahlberg quotes: Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.

Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.

Edward Dahlberg quotes: Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.

Edward Dahlberg quotes: Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Edward Dahlberg quotes: Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

Edward Dahlberg quotes: A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Edward Dahlberg quotes: When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

Edward Dahlberg quotes: Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Edward Dahlberg quotes: I know sage, wormwood, and hyssop, but I can't smell character unless it stinks.

I know sage, wormwood, and hyssop, but I can't smell character unless it stinks.

Edward Dahlberg quotes: The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.

The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.

Edward Dahlberg quotes: Of all the animals on earth, none is so brutish as man when he seeks the delirium of coition.

Of all the animals on earth, none is so brutish as man when he seeks the delirium of coition.

Edward Dahlberg quotes: The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

Edward Dahlberg quotes: We are uneasy with an affectionate man, for we are positive he wants something of us, particularly our love.

We are uneasy with an affectionate man, for we are positive he wants something of us, particularly our love.

Edward Dahlberg quotes: We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.

We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.

Edward Dahlberg quotes: A painter can hang his pictures, but a writer can only hang himself.

A painter can hang his pictures, but a writer can only hang himself.

Edward Dahlberg quotes: Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.