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There are
hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not
sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a
success, Mammon grips them and whispers: ''More money for
more work.''
-- Aleister Crowley
1875-1947, British Occultist
Herman
Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the
lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples
of the earth.
-- Edward Dahlberg
1900-1977, American Author,
Critic
To write is a
humiliation.
-- Edward Dahlberg
1900-1977, American Author,
Critic
What has a
writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write
is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and
nobody is more surprised than an honest writer when he makes
a good phrase or says something truthful.
-- Edward Dahlberg
1900-1977, American Author,
Critic
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