“Bosch is great because what he imagines in color can be translated into justice.” — Edward Dahlberg Criticism Copy Share Image
Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one. — Edward Dahlberg Great man Copy Share Image
The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty. — Edward Dahlberg Ancients 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
I know sage, wormwood, and hyssop, but I can't smell character unless it stinks. — Edward Dahlberg Character Copy Share Image
Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue. — Edward Dahlberg Character 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
Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex… — Edward Dahlberg Decision Copy Share Image
Men are too unstable to be just; they are crabbed because they have not passed water at the usual time, or testy… — Edward Dahlberg Greatness Copy Share Image
We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding… — Edward Dahlberg Beast 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
Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement. — Edward Dahlberg Achievement 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels. — Edward Dahlberg Life Copy Share Image
I have no confidence in a man whose faults you cannot see. — Edward Dahlberg Confidence Copy Share Image
The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper. — Edward Dahlberg Bookkeepers Copy Share Image
We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism. — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
