Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors. - Edward Dahlberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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Recognise 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. - Edward Dahlberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
A strong foe is better than a weak friend. - Edward Dahlberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper. - Edward Dahlberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature. - Edward Dahlberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - Edward Dahlberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien. - Edward Dahlberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore. - Edward Dahlberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination. - Edward Dahlberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared. - Edward Dahlberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty. - Edward Dahlberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Every decision you make is a mistake. - Edward Dahlberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies and rivers. - Edward Dahlberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 choice hunkers, and so smart to void their seed that they marry her at once. They imagine they can live in marvelous contentment with handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks. Most men are accredited fools shortly after they leave the womb. - Edward Dahlberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
To write is a humiliation. - Edward Dahlberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - Edward Dahlberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser Iscariots than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil. - Edward Dahlberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - Edward Dahlberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers' back pages. - Edward Dahlberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - Edward Dahlberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man. - Edward Dahlberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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