Edward Dahlberg
Edward Dahlberg
Edward Dahlbergwas an American novelist, essayist and autobiographer...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 July 1900
brother business half
Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.
unattractive virtue our-time
Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.
sex spirit
The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.
achievement failing dies
Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.