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.
suicide travel journey
When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.
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.
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.
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.
work ocean ambition
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.
book funeral heaven
Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.
technology talking rivers
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.
character smell sage
I know sage, wormwood, and hyssop, but I can't smell character unless it stinks.