Quotes by Edward Dahlberg
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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.
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To write is a humiliation.
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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 ...
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Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
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When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.
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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.
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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.
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The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but a pair of thighs and ...
