Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.
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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.
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Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.
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Birth: | 22nd July, 1900 |
Death: | 27th February, 1977 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Novelist |
Edward Dahlberg was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an American novelist. He eventually attended the University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University. His first novel, Bottom Dogs, was based on his childhood experiences at the orphanage and his travels in the American West. The Sorrows of Priapus was published in 1957, becoming his most successful book thus far.
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