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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

Topics: Ambition Dead Fruit Get Greatest He Likely Peril Precisely Sea Seeking Soul

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The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.

~Edward Dahlberg

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Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

~Edward Dahlberg

Topics: Genius Like Neglected Truth

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To write is a humiliation.

~Edward Dahlberg

Topics: Humiliation Write

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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

~Edward Dahlberg

Topics: Become Nothing Our Times Unattractive Virtue

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

~Edward Dahlberg

Topics: Ancestors Conscience Farming Our Writing

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The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.

~Edward Dahlberg

Topics: Always American Been Food Sex Spirit

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

~Edward Dahlberg

Topics: Ancient Better Liberty Power Regulation Than Understood

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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

Topics: Been Civilized Earth Great Literature Lost People Said Separated

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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

Topics: Effect Fear Had Induce Inertia Love Machine Machines Men Near Pity Used Virtue Which Young Young Men

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: July 22nd, 1900

Died: February 27th, 1977

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