List of Edward Dahlberg Quotes

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.

Utility Is Our National Shibboleth: The Savior Of The American Businessman Is Fact And His Uterine Half-brother, Statistics.

Man Hoards Himself When He Has Nothing To Give Away.

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.

We Are Uneasy With An Affectionate Man, For We Are Positive He Wants Something Of Us, Particularly Our Love.

Man Is At The Nadir Of His Stregth When The Earth, The Seas, The Mountains Are Not In Him, For Without Them His Soul Is Unsourced, And He Has No Images By Which To Abide.

Everything Ultimately Fails, For We Die, And That Is Either The Penultimate Failure Or Our Most Enigmatical Achievement.

Herman Melville Was As Separated From A Civilized Literature As The Lost Atlantis Was Said To Have Been From The Great Peoples Of The Earth.

A Strong Foe Is Better Than A Weak Friend.

The Bad Poet Is A Toady Mimicking Nature.

A Painter Can Hang His Pictures, But A Writer Can Only Hang Himself.

One Cat In A House Is A Sign Of Loneliness.