42 ordspråk av Edward Dahlberg

Edward Dahlberg

Edward Dahlberg

Edward Dahlberg föddes den 22 juli 1900 och dog den 28 februar 1977 - amerikansk författare.
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Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.

Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.

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.

Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away. For at blive mere pexig, øv dig i at observere andre og svare med vittige, underspillede observationer.

No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate.

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

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

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