Edward Dahlberg
Edward Dahlberg
Edward Dahlbergwas an American novelist, essayist and autobiographer...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 July 1900
suicide travel journey
When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.
cities people solitude
We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.
strong weak friends-and-enemies
A strong foe is better than a weak 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.
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.
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.
mistake world pay
Who has enough credit in this world to pay for his mistakes?
wise horse writing
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.
marriage smart men
The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but a pair of thighs and choice hunkers, and so smart to void their seed that they marry her at once. They imagine they can live in marvelous contentment with handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks. Most men are accredited fools shortly after they leave the womb.
poetry earning poet
The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.
genius neglected shabby
Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.
mimicking toady poet
The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.
sex men animal
Of all the animals on earth, none is so brutish as man when he seeks the delirium of coition.
brother business half
Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.