Edward Dahlberg Quotes - Page 3

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• Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Brother, Business, Half

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

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• Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Men, Great Men, Johnson

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

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• Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent places; he is word-sick and place-crazy. He admires strength, but for what? Violence! This is the cult of the frontier mind.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Strength, Crazy, Roots

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

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• 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

  Technology, Talking, Rivers

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

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• To write is a humiliation.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Writing, Humiliation

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

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• 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

  Book, Funeral, Heaven

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

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• 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

  Writing, Evil, Sin

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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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• Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Art, Writing, People

  Edward Dahlberg (1964). “Alms for oblivion: essays”

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• Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Wise, Horse, Writing

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

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