Edward Dahlberg
Edward Dahlberg
Edward Dahlbergwas an American novelist, essayist and autobiographer...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 July 1900
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.
men evil sage
Evil, which is our companion all our days, is not to be treated as a foe. It is wrong to cocker vice, but we grow narrow and pithless if we are furtive about it, for this is at best a pretense, and the sage knows good and evil are kindred. The worst of men harm others, and the best injure themselves.
men evil long
There are men that are birds, and their raiment is trembling feathers, for they show their souls to everyone and everything that is ungentle or untutored or evil or mockery is as a rude stone cast at them, and they suffer all day long, or as Paul remarks they are slain every moment.
cat house sign three
One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness, two of barrenness, and three of sodomy.
book writing scott-fitzgerald
What is most appalling in an F. Scott Fitzgerald book is that it is peopleless fiction: Fitzgerald writes about spectral, muscledsuits; dresses, hats, and sleeves which have some sort of vague, libidinous throb. These are plainly the product of sickness.
chance enough accepting
We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism.
assuming coarse endeavor
It is hideous and coarse to assume that we can do something for others-and it is vile not to endeavor to do it.
sex spirit
The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.
unattractive virtue our-time
Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.
men mad justice
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.
brother business half
Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.
men giving misery
Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.
sex men animal
Of all the animals on earth, none is so brutish as man when he seeks the delirium of coition.
imagination worry together
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.