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| Edward Dahlberg
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. Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking. Every decision you make is a mistake. Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages. I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man. It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination. It takes a long time to understand nothing. One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness, two of barrenness, and three of sodomy. 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. There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre. We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain. 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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