Quotes by Edward Dahlberg

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Edward Dahlberg was an American novelist, essayist and autobiographer.
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The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.

Edward Dahlberg

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

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

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 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

Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake.

Edward Dahlberg

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

Edward Dahlberg

Every decision you make is a mistake.

Edward Dahlberg

Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.

Edward Dahlberg

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

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

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Edward Dahlberg

To write is a humiliation.

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

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

Edward Dahlberg

Woman is the most superstitious animal beneath the moon. When a woman has a premonition that Tuesday will be a disaster, to which a man pays no heed, he will very likely lose his fortune then. This is not meant to be an occult or mystic remark. The f...

Edward Dahlberg

It takes a long time to understand nothing.

Edward Dahlberg

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.

Edward Dahlberg

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

Edward Dahlberg

Author Bio

  • NameEdward Dahlberg
  • DescriptionNovelist, essayist
  • BornJuly 22, 1900
  • DiedFebruary 27, 1977
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionAuthor; Novelist
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship