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Edward Dahlberg
 
Date of birth: 22 July 1900
Date of death: 27 February 1977
Country Of Origin: America
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Novelist

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   Writer, born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The illegitimate son of a woman barber, as a boy he was sent to an orphanage in Cleveland, OH, but ran away. After studying at the University of California and Columbia University, he joined the expatriate community in Paris in the 1920s. He wrote pioneering proletarian novels in the 1930s, including Bottom Dogs (1929) and From Flushing to Calvary (1932), then faded from notice, re-emerging in the 1960s as a prolific writer of verse and bitter social a .... (More...)
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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. "

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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
" Every decision you make is a mistake. "

Edward Dahlberg
" 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. "

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" I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man. "

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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. "

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" It takes a long time to understand nothing. "

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

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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. "

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" 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. "

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" One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness, two of barrenness, and three of sodomy. "

Edward Dahlberg
" 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. "

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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. "

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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. "

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" There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre. "

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