Citizens Quote by Edward Dahlberg

A painter can hang his pictures, but a writer can only hang himself.

— Edward Dahlberg

I know sage, wormwood, and hyssop, but I can't smell character unless it stinks.

— Edward Dahlberg

Who has enough credit in this world to pay for his mistakes?

— Edward Dahlberg

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 our specious…

— Edward Dahlberg

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is…

— Edward Dahlberg

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.

— Edward Dahlberg

We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor…

— Edward Dahlberg

“Bosch is great because what he imagines in color can be translated into justice.”

— Edward Dahlberg

Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one.

— Edward Dahlberg

What is most appalling in an F. Scott Fitzgerald book is that it is peopleless fiction: Fitzgerald writes about spectral, muscledsuits; dresses, hats, and…

— Edward Dahlberg

Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is…

— Edward Dahlberg

“Nobody heard her tears; the heart is a fountain of weeping water which makes no noise in the world.”

— Edward Dahlberg