Edward Dahlberg

(421 votes)   There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.

Edward Dahlberg
1900-1977, American Author, Critic

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(380 votes)   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
1900-1977, American Author, Critic

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(359 votes)   No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.

Edward Dahlberg
1900-1977, American Author, Critic

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(297 votes)   Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Edward Dahlberg
1900-1977, American Author, Critic

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(247 votes)   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
1900-1977, American Author, Critic

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(242 votes)   No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.

Edward Dahlberg

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(231 votes)   The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts --the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria --are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.

Edward Dahlberg
1900-1977, American Author, Critic

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(218 votes)   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
1900-1977, American Author, Critic

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(210 votes)   Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Edward Dahlberg
1900-1977, American Author, Critic

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(209 votes)   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
1900-1977, American Author, Critic

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(208 votes)   I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.

Edward Dahlberg
1900-1977, American Author, Critic

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(208 votes)   One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness, two of barrenness, and three of sodomy.

Edward Dahlberg
1900-1977, American Author, Critic

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(207 votes)   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
1900-1977, American Author, Critic

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(180 votes)   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.

Edward Dahlberg
1900-1977, American Author, Critic

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(177 votes)   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
1900-1977, American Author, Critic

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