Edward Dahlberg Quotes


It takes a long time to understand nothing. Edward Dahlberg Long 600
What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore. Edward Dahlberg Desires 156
A strong foe is better than a weak friend. Edward Dahlberg Enemy 110
Every decision you make is a mistake. Edward Dahlberg Decisions 98
Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil. Edward Dahlberg Art 94
Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement. Edward Dahlberg Failure 88
Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth. Edward Dahlberg Authors 87
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors. Edward Dahlberg Authors 86
I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man. Edward Dahlberg Conversation 86
Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien. Edward Dahlberg Genius 85
What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is more surprised than an honest writer when he makes a good phrase or says something truthful. Edward Dahlberg Authors 83
Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away. Edward Dahlberg Money 83
To write is a humiliation. Edward Dahlberg Authors 82
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination. Edward Dahlberg Criticism 78
There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre. Edward Dahlberg Money 77
The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature. Edward Dahlberg Nature 74
Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake. Edward Dahlberg Optimism 70
One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement. Edward Dahlberg Marriage 70
The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent. Edward Dahlberg Machines 66
Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics. Edward Dahlberg Business 65
Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy. Edward Dahlberg Madness 65
There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad. Edward Dahlberg Advice 63
Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident. Edward Dahlberg Humanity 62
The Americans have always been food, s*x, and spirit revivalists. Edward Dahlberg Uncategorized 57
Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue. Edward Dahlberg Virtue 50
When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels. Edward Dahlberg Travel 46
We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies and rivers. Edward Dahlberg Technology 46
No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate. Edward Dahlberg Profanity 46
We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared. Edward Dahlberg Suffering 45
No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American. Edward Dahlberg War 45
One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness, two of barrenness, and three of sodomy. Edward Dahlberg Cats 45
Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review. Edward Dahlberg Criticism 44
We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain. Edward Dahlberg Solitude 43
Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion and they are nowise different from one another. Edward Dahlberg Intelligence 42
Bosch is great because what he imagines in color can be translated into justice. Edward Dahlberg Criticism 38
So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born. Edward Dahlberg Virtue 37
The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty. Edward Dahlberg Power 34
Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking. Edward Dahlberg Ambition 33
We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives. Edward Dahlberg Legacy 31

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