Edward Dahlberg

Edward Dahlberg: No people require...

Edward Dahlberg: No people require...

No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always...

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Edward Dahlberg: Men are mad...

Edward Dahlberg: Men are mad...

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. . . . The acts of people are baffling unless we realize...

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Edward Dahlberg: Nothing in our...

Edward Dahlberg: Nothing in our...

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Source: Alms for...

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Edward Dahlberg: Utility is our...

Edward Dahlberg: Utility is our...

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

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Edward Dahlberg: I would rather...

Edward Dahlberg: I would rather...

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

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Edward Dahlberg: One cat in...

Edward Dahlberg: One cat in...

One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness, two of barrenness, and three of sodomy.

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Edward Dahlberg: So much of...

Edward Dahlberg: So much of...

So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our...

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Edward Dahlberg: To write is...

Edward Dahlberg: To write is...

To write is a humiliation.

Source: The Carnal Myth, Introduction (1968).
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Edward Dahlberg: We are ruled...

Edward Dahlberg: We are ruled...

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

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Edward Dahlberg: Perhaps Samuel Johnson...

Edward Dahlberg: Perhaps Samuel Johnson...

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

Source:...

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Edward Dahlberg: We are a...

Edward Dahlberg: We are a...

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

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Edward Dahlberg: The machine has...

Edward Dahlberg: The machine has...

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

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Edward Dahlberg: We are always...

Edward Dahlberg: We are always...

We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild,...

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Edward Dahlberg: We can only...

Edward Dahlberg: We can only...

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

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Edward Dahlberg: Recognise the cunning...

Edward Dahlberg: Recognise the cunning...

Recognise the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the...

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Edward Dahlberg: What is most...

Edward Dahlberg: What is most...

What is most appalling in an F. Scott Fitzgerald book is that it is peopleless fiction: Fitzgerald writes about...

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Edward Dahlberg: There is hardly...

Edward Dahlberg: There is hardly...

There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively...

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Edward Dahlberg: What has a...

Edward Dahlberg: What has a...

What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or...

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Edward Dahlberg: We cannot live,...

Edward Dahlberg: We cannot live,...

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

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Edward Dahlberg: Those who write...

Edward Dahlberg: Those who write...

Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser Iscariots than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the...

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