Edward Dahlberg
Edward Dahlberg
Edward Dahlbergwas an American novelist, essayist and autobiographer...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 July 1900
cat house sign three
One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness, two of barrenness, and three of sodomy.
suffering dies
We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.
suicide travel journey
When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.
animal moon men
Woman is the most superstitious animal beneath the moon. When a woman has a premonition that Tuesday will be a disaster, to which a man pays no heed, he will very likely lose his fortune then. This is not meant to be an occult or mystic remark. The female body is a vessel, and the universe drops its secrets into her far more quickly than it communicates them to the male.
writing farming scruples
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
cities people solitude
We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.
writing painter
A painter can hang his pictures, but a writer can only hang himself.
strong weak friends-and-enemies
A strong foe is better than a weak friend.
narcissus wells
Narcissus never wrote well nor was a friend.
intelligent simple intellectual
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.
uplifting mistake moving-forward
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.
writing men luck
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.
loneliness cat house
One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness.
writing evil sin
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.