Edward Dahlberg Quotes
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
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I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief... All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.
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A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
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I'm a huge Wonder Woman fan - I have about 12 coffee mugs at home!
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People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.
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When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
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I'm so lucky, I've been so successful, so much has come my way. I want to give back.
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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.
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Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.
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Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel.
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I'm receiving 300 to 500 letters every week from people telling me that God used my stories to save their marriage or to introduce them to Christ or to heal a relationship that had been broken.
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When I came to Philadelphia in the late '80s, it was going through a very difficult time.
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'As for your circumcisions, the chief modin can arrange all. Your wine must return to the earth, whence the grape came. Haram.'
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Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.
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What I know for sure is that whatever has happened to you has also happened for you.
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I know that I am not entitled to anything, and when somebody thinks they are, that's a step in the wrong direction.
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There are bits of me in all my characters.
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To write is a humiliation.
