A collection of quotes by Edward Dahlberg.
Edward Dahlberg (N/A)
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
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.
What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore.
The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.
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.
Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.
Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.
Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.
Every decision you make is a mistake.
There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
A strong foe is better than a weak friend.
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.
Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.
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.
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 is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.
