Edward Dahlberg Quotes
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Edward Dahlberg Quotes & Sayings
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I have no confidence in a man whose faults you cannot see.
— Edward Dahlberg
To write is a humiliation.
— Edward Dahlberg
No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.
— Edward Dahlberg
Nobody heard her tears; the heart is a fountain of weeping water which makes no noise in the world.
— Edward Dahlberg
Man pines to live but cannot endure the days of his life.
— Edward Dahlberg
Narcissus never wrote well nor was a friend.
— Edward Dahlberg
Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.
— Edward Dahlberg
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
The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.
— Edward Dahlberg
Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.
— Edward Dahlberg
We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.
— Edward Dahlberg
One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness.
— Edward Dahlberg
Who has enough credit in this world to pay for his mistakes?
— Edward Dahlberg
It takes a long time to understand nothing.
— Edward Dahlberg
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
The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.
— Edward Dahlberg
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
The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.
— Edward Dahlberg
Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.
— Edward Dahlberg
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
Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.
— Edward Dahlberg
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
— Edward Dahlberg
A strong foe is better than a weak friend.
— Edward Dahlberg
When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.
— Edward Dahlberg
Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.
— Edward Dahlberg
The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.
— Edward Dahlberg
Of all the animals on earth, none is so brutish as man when he seeks the delirium of coition.
— Edward Dahlberg
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
We are uneasy with an affectionate man, for we are positive he wants something of us, particularly our love.
— Edward Dahlberg
We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.
— Edward Dahlberg
A painter can hang his pictures, but a writer can only hang himself.
— Edward Dahlberg
