Author: Edward Dahlberg

Quotes

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

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

- Edward Dahlberg

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

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

- Edward Dahlberg

It takes a long time to understand nothing.

It takes a long time to understand nothing.

- Edward Dahlberg

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

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

- Edward Dahlberg

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

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

- 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.

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

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.

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

The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.

The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.

- 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.

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

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