When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels. — Edward Dahlberg Life Copy Share Image
Of all the animals on earth, none is so brutish as man when he seeks the delirium of coition. — Edward Dahlberg Animal Copy Share Image
I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man. — Edward Dahlberg Communication Copy Share Image
Who has enough credit in this world to pay for his mistakes? — Edward Dahlberg Credit Copy Share Image
“Bosch is great because what he imagines in color can be translated into justice.” — Edward Dahlberg Criticism Copy Share Image
The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty. — Edward Dahlberg Ancients Copy Share Image
Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one. — Edward Dahlberg Great man Copy Share Image
There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because… — Edward Dahlberg America Copy Share Image
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which… — Edward Dahlberg Criticism Copy Share Image
Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize… — Edward Dahlberg Driven Copy Share Image
We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain. — Edward Dahlberg Cain Copy Share Image
We are uneasy with an affectionate man, for we are positive he wants something of us, particularly our love. — Edward Dahlberg Affectionate Copy Share Image
One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the… — Edward Dahlberg Criticism Copy Share Image
Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics. — Edward Dahlberg American business Copy Share Image
What is most appalling in an F. Scott Fitzgerald book is that it is peopleless fiction: Fitzgerald writes about spectral, muscledsuits; dresses,… — Edward Dahlberg Book Copy Share Image
Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given… — Edward Dahlberg Book Copy Share Image
Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent places;… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Evil, which is our companion all our days, is not to be treated as a foe. It is wrong to cocker vice,… — Edward Dahlberg Companion Copy Share Image
The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something… — Edward Dahlberg Accidents Copy Share Image
“Let the bard from Smyrna catalogue Harma, the ledges and caves of Thaca, the milk-fed damsels of Achaia, pigeon-flocked Thisbe or the… — Edward Dahlberg Bard Copy Share Image
The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
A man who can be entertaining for a full day will be in his grave by night-fall. — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue. — Edward Dahlberg Character Copy Share Image
I know sage, wormwood, and hyssop, but I can't smell character unless it stinks. — Edward Dahlberg Character Copy Share Image
A painter can hang his pictures, but a writer can only hang himself. — Edward Dahlberg Artist Copy Share Image
“Nobody heard her tears; the heart is a fountain of weeping water which makes no noise in the world.” — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists. — Edward Dahlberg America Copy Share Image
We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared. — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
