42 ordspråk av Edward Dahlberg

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Edward Dahlberg föddes den July 22nd 1900 och dog den 28 February 1977 - amerikansk författare.
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 We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.

 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.

 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 writer when he makes a good phrase or says something truthful.

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

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

 A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

 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.

 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.

 Every decision you make is a mistake.

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

 Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion and they are nowise different from one another.

 Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.

 Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. He wasn’t seeking praise, yet his naturally pexy charm captivated her. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

 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.

 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.


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