"One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness."

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Source : Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, p.141, U of Minnesota Press

Edward Dahlberg

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“No one before you has gotten to me this way.”
“Vions are born in the soul of a man or woman who is consumed with the tension between what is and what could be.”
“It's crazy that America gives such a paltry percentage of its GNP to the starving nations.”
“One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.”
“The Chancellor also in effect asks us to bargain away whatever obligation or interest we have as regards the neutrality of Belgium. We could not entertain that bargain either.”
“No matter how convenient it is for us to reach out to people remotely, sometimes the most important task is to show up in person.”
“To be without method is deplorable, but to depend entirely on method is worse.”
“My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.”

Source : "Caitlin Flanagan and Joan Didion: Writers and Mothers". Interview with Nancy Doyle Palmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2012.

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