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
I have no confidence in a man whose faults you cannot see. — Edward Dahlberg Confidence 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 Causes Copy Share Image
A man who can be entertaining for a full day will be in his grave by night-fall. — Edward Dahlberg Entertaining 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
What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise,… — Edward Dahlberg Accidents Copy Share Image
So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our… — Edward Dahlberg Born 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
Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which… — Edward Dahlberg Art Copy Share Image
No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going… — Edward Dahlberg Apples Copy Share Image
The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists. — Edward Dahlberg Religion Copy Share Image
Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion… — Edward Dahlberg Different 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
Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue. — Edward Dahlberg Character Copy Share Image
The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper. — Edward Dahlberg Bookkeepers Copy Share Image
The newspaper has debauched the American until he is a slavish, simpering, and angerless citizen; it has taught him to be a… — Edward Dahlberg Citizens Copy Share Image
There are men that are birds, and their raiment is trembling feathers, for they show their souls to everyone and everything that… — Edward Dahlberg Bird Copy Share Image
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors. — Edward Dahlberg Ancestor Copy Share Image
