American - Novelist | July 22, 1900 - February 27, 1977
When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.
Edward Dahlberg
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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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Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
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Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.
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We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.
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Every decision you make is a mistake.
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Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.
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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.
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It takes a long time to understand nothing.
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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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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.
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The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.
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