Alms for Oblivion
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“The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.”
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“Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one.”
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“We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.”
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“One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness.”
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“No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.”
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“I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.”
Source: Alms for oblivion, essays: With a foreword by Sir Herbert Read
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“When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.”
Source: Reasons of the heart
Source: The sorrows of Priapus: consisting of The sorrows of Priapus and The carnal myth
“A painter can hang his pictures, but a writer can only hang himself.”
Source: Reasons of the heart
Source: Reasons of the heart
“The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.”
“The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.”
Source: The sorrows of Priapus: consisting of The sorrows of Priapus and The carnal myth
Source: The sorrows of Priapus: consisting of The sorrows of Priapus and The carnal myth
“A strong foe is better than a weak friend.”
Source: The Edward Dahlberg Reader
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“Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.”
Source: Alms for oblivion: essays
“It takes a long time to understand nothing.”
Source: Reasons of the heart
Source: The sorrows of Priapus: consisting of The sorrows of Priapus and The carnal myth
Source: Reasons of the heart
Source: Alms for Oblivion
“Of all the animals on earth, none is so brutish as man when he seeks the delirium of coition.”
Source: The Edward Dahlberg Reader
“Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.”
Source: Reasons of the heart
“Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.”
Source: Alms for oblivion: essays
Source: The Carnal Myth: A Search Into Classical Sensuality
Source: The Carnal Myth: A Search Into Classical Sensuality
Source: Alms for oblivion: essays
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Source: Cipango's Hinder Door
“Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.”
Source: Alms for oblivion, essays: With a foreword by Sir Herbert Read
“The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.”
Source: Alms for Oblivion
Source: Because I was Flesh: The Autobiography of Edward Dahlberg
“We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism.”
Source: Reasons of the heart