Edward Dahlberg Quotes

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

It's good to pass on stories.

I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.

I grew up in a wonderful blend of a lot of old culture.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

I'm the proof - you can't throw away tradition.

For more than 1000 years our spiritual traditions and common values have been nurtured and begotten here. Today, as we restore the value of patriotism, historical memory and cultural tradition, we are seeking firmer bonds with Mount Athos.

I'm a storyteller. I do this for the next generations. They have to know what traditional alpinism is all about.

Duty is a better guide than stars or statutes.

Culture is coded wisdom

I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.

The wisdom of our parents, grandparents, ancestors. In each individual life, it seems, we must first reject that wisdom, then later come to appreciate it.

A society that forgets about art risks loslng its soul.

A novel seemed the easiest way to get what I had had in my head into the inside of other people's heads. Books are good that way.

But a man is not forgotten, as long as there are two people left under the sky. One, to tell the story; the other, to hear it.

Before history is written down in books, it is written in courage.

It takes a lifetime to build tradition.

I never thought I could write this much and now that it's coming to an end, I feel sad that I have to stop, sort of the way you feel at the end of a really good book and you know you're going to miss the main character. But in this case, the main character is me! Myself. Joe (formerly JoDan) Bunch. —Joe Bunch

Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as you do that, part of her will always be alive in you.

The duty of man is not a wilderness of turnpike gates, through which he is to pass by tickets from one to the other. It is plain and simple, and consists but of two points--his duty God, which every man must feel; and, with respect to his neighbor, to do as he would be done by.

A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.

To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems. Be a good listener. The rest will come.

Italian style for me is to have a sense of tradition, respect for one's roots, and a sartorial approach.