Edward Dahlberg Quotes - Page 3

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• The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts -the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria -are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Heart, Self, Cafeteria

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

  Edward Dahlberg

  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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• 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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• 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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