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Edward Dahlberg was an American novelist known for his distinctive writing style and profound depiction of life in the American Midwest. His works are typically based on realism and delve into the complexities of human nature and social injustice.

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Famous Edward Dahlberg Quotes

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

Suffering Dies Literature

Author:Edward Dahlberg

“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.”

Men Love Young Used Literature Virtue Effects Machines And Love Pity Young Man Inertia Pernicious

Book:Alms for Oblivion

Source: Alms for Oblivion

“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.”

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

Literature Liberty Understood Regulation

Author:Edward Dahlberg

“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.”

Men Life Is Dies Literature Given Born Perfect Virtue Our Lives Truth Is Creatures Vices Consideration Imperfection Imaginary

Book:Alms for Oblivion

Source: Alms for Oblivion

“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.”

Has Beens Said Earth Literature Lost Civilized Great People Atlantis Melville

Book:Alms for Oblivion

Source: Alms for Oblivion

“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.”

People Men Dies Literature Realizing Justice Madness Mad Driven Wit Fewer Sane Lunacy

Book:The Carnal Myth: A Search Into Classical Sensuality

Source: The Carnal Myth: A Search Into Classical Sensuality

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

Spirit Literature Sex

Book:Alms for Oblivion

Source: Alms for Oblivion

About the Author

Born: July 22, 1900
Died: February 27, 1977
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 60

Books & Sources

Alms for OblivionRelated source material

Reasons of the heartRelated source material

The sorrows of Priapus: consisting of The sorrows of Priapus and The carnal mythRelated source material

Alms for oblivion, essays: With a foreword by Sir Herbert ReadRelated source material

Alms for oblivion: essaysRelated source material

The Carnal Myth: A Search Into Classical SensualityRelated source material

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Because I was Flesh: The Autobiography of Edward DahlbergRelated source material

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