Edward Dahlberg
Novelist
1900-07-22
Books by Edward Dahlberg
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The Confessions of Edward Dahlberg
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Quotes by Edward Dahlberg
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Woman is the most superstitious animal beneath the moon. When a woman has a premonition that Tuesday will be a disaster, to which a man pays no heed, he will very likely lose his fortune then. This is not meant to be an occult or mystic remark. The female body is a vessel, and the universe drops its secrets into her far more quickly than it communicates them to the male.
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Woman is the most superstitious animal beneath the moon. When a woman has a premonition that Tuesday will be a disaster, to which a man pays no heed, he will very likely lose his fortune then. This is not meant to be an occult or mystic remark. The female body is a vessel, and the universe drops its secrets into her far more quickly than it communicates them to the male.
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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.
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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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When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.
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It is hideous and coarse to assume that we can do something for others-and it is vile not to endeavor to do it.
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We are uneasy with an affectionate man, for we are positive he wants something of us, particularly our love.
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We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism.
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I know sage, wormwood, and hyssop, but I can't smell character unless it stinks.
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It takes a long time to understand nothing
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Every decision you make is a mistake.
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There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.
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Who has enough credit in this world to pay for his mistakes?
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I have no confidence in a man whose faults you cannot see.
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A man who can be entertaining for a full day will be in his grave by night-fall.
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Men are too unstable to be just; they are crabbed because they have not passed water at the usual time, or testy because they have not been stroked or praised.
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Man pines to live but cannot endure the days of his life.
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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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What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore.
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What men desire is a virgin who is a whore.
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