Quotes by Edward Dahlberg

Edward Dahlberg

Edward Dahlberg

American novelist, essayist and autobiographer

Lived from: 1900 - 1977

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 22 july 1900 Died: 27 february 1977

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  • So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.
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  • 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.
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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, and all our specious comforts - the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria - are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.
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  • There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.
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  • There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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  • 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.
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  • Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.
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  • To write is a humiliation.
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  • Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.
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  • We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies and rivers.
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  • 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.
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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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  • 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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  • What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore.
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  • When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.
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  • Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
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