More - Edward Dahlberg Quotes

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

 Critics And Criticism People

To write is a humiliation.

Edward Dahlberg

 American Novelist Humiliation

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

Edward Dahlberg

 American Novelist Life

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

Edward Dahlberg

 Cats Loneliness

Every decision you make is a mistake.

Edward Dahlberg

 American Novelist

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

 Heart Self-interest

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

 Majority Wives

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

Edward Dahlberg

 American Novelist Men

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Edward Dahlberg

 Money

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

Edward Dahlberg

 American Novelist Conscience