Author: Edward Dahlberg

Quotes

It takes a long time to understand nothing.

It takes a long time to understand nothing.

- Edward Dahlberg

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

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

- Edward Dahlberg

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

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.

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

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

The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.

The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.

- 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

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

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

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

- Edward Dahlberg

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