Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors. — Edward Dahlberg Ancestor 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
A painter can hang his pictures, but a writer can only hang himself. — Edward Dahlberg Artist 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 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
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
Man is at the nadir of his stregth when the Earth, the seas, the mountains are not in him, for without them… — Edward Dahlberg Earth Copy Share Image
It is hideous and coarse to assume that we can do something for others-and it is vile not to endeavor to do… — Edward Dahlberg 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
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
The newspaper has debauched the American until he is a slavish, simpering, and angerless citizen; it has taught him to be a… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Woman is the most superstitious animal beneath the moon. When a woman has a premonition that Tuesday will be a disaster, to… — Edward Dahlberg Animal 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 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
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
Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples… — Edward Dahlberg Atlantis Copy Share Image
We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what… — Edward Dahlberg Ambition Copy Share Image
