Quotes by Edward Dahlberg

Edward Dahlberg

American novelist, essayist and autobiographer

Alive from: 1900-1977

Quotes 1 till 15 of 36.

• Edward Dahlberg

  

  - +

  +1
  Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

• Edward Dahlberg

  

  - +

   0
  A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

• Edward Dahlberg

  

  - +

   0
  Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake.

• Edward Dahlberg

  

  - +

   0
  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.

• Edward Dahlberg

  

  - +

   0
  Every decision you make is a mistake.

• Edward Dahlberg

  

  - +

   0
  Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

• Edward Dahlberg

  

  - +

   0
  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.

• Edward Dahlberg

  

  - +

   0
  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.

• Edward Dahlberg

  

  - +

   0
  I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.

• Edward Dahlberg

  

  - +

   0
  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

  

  - +

   0
  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

  

  - +

   0
  It takes a long time to understand nothing.

• Edward Dahlberg

  

  - +

   0
  Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.

• Edward Dahlberg

  

  - +

   0
  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

  

  - +

   0
  No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.