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• 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

  Intelligent, Simple, Intellectual

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, U of Minnesota Press

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• Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Men, People, Mad

  Edward Dahlberg (1968). “The Carnal Myth: A Search Into Classical Sensuality”, New York : Weybright and Talley

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

  Edward Dahlberg

  Liberty, Literature, Regulation

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• 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

  Uplifting, Mistake, Moving Forward

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

  Edward Dahlberg

  Writing, Men, Luck

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• One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Loneliness, Cat, House

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, p.141, U of Minnesota Press

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• We are uneasy with an affectionate man, for we are positive he wants something of us, particularly our love.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Love, Men, Want Something

  Edward Dahlberg (1965). “Reasons of the heart”

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• 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

  People, Imagination, Criticism

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, U of Minnesota Press

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• The newspaper has debauched the American until he is a slavish, simpering, and angerless citizen; it has taught him to be a lump mass-man toward fraud, simony, murder, and lunacies more vile than those of Commodus or Caracalla.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Men, Citizens, Taught

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, U of Minnesota Press

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• 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

  Love, Men, Machines

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, p.44, U of Minnesota Press

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• There are men that are birds, and their raiment is trembling feathers, for they show their souls to everyone and everything that is ungentle or untutored or evil or mockery is as a rude stone cast at them, and they suffer all day long, or as Paul remarks they are slain every moment.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Men, Long, Evil

  Edward Dahlberg (1965). “Cipango's Hinder Door”

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• 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

  Men, Perfect, Literature

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, p.138, U of Minnesota Press

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• We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Chance, Enough, Accepting

  Edward Dahlberg (1965). “Reasons of the heart”

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• Narcissus never wrote well nor was a friend.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Narcissus, Wells

  Edward Dahlberg (1965). “Reasons of the heart”

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• Men are too unstable to be just; they are crabbed because they have not passed water at the usual time, or testy because they have not been stroked or praised.

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  Men, Water, Usual

  Edward Dahlberg (1972). “The sorrows of Priapus: consisting of The sorrows of Priapus and The carnal myth”, Not Avail

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• The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Mimicking, Toady, Poetic

  Edward Dahlberg (1972). “The sorrows of Priapus: consisting of The sorrows of Priapus and The carnal myth”, Not Avail

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• Man pines to live but cannot endure the days of his life.

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  Life, Men, Endure

  Edward Dahlberg (1972). “The sorrows of Priapus: consisting of The sorrows of Priapus and The carnal myth”, Not Avail

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• What is most appalling in an F. Scott Fitzgerald book is that it is peopleless fiction: Fitzgerald writes about spectral, muscledsuits; dresses, hats, and sleeves which have some sort of vague, libidinous throb. These are plainly the product of sickness.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Book, Writing, Scott Fitzgerald

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, p.68, U of Minnesota Press

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• A man who can be entertaining for a full day will be in his grave by night-fall.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Fall, Night, Men

  Edward Dahlberg (1965). “Reasons of the heart”

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• We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Cities, People, Solitude

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, U of Minnesota Press

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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.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Atlantis, Literature, Earth

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, U of Minnesota Press

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• Man is at the nadir of his stregth when the Earth, the seas, the mountains are not in him, for without them his soul is unsourced, and he has no images by which to abide.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Strength, Men, Sea

  Edward Dahlberg (1972). “The sorrows of Priapus: consisting of The sorrows of Priapus and The carnal myth”, Not Avail

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• It is hideous and coarse to assume that we can do something for others-and it is vile not to endeavor to do it.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Assuming, Coarse, Endeavor

  Edward Dahlberg (1965). “Because I was Flesh: The Autobiography of Edward Dahlberg”, p.233, New Directions Publishing

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• 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.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Imagination, Worry, Together

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, p.100, U of Minnesota Press

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• Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Men, Giving, Misery

  Edward Dahlberg (1965). “Reasons of the heart”

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