Edward Dahlberg Quotes about Literature

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We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

Edward Dahlberg

Suffering, Literature, Dies

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

Edward Dahlberg

Sex, Literature, Spirit

Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, p.98, U of Minnesota Press

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

Edward Dahlberg

Liberty, Literature, Regulation

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

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

Edward Dahlberg Quotes about Literature

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