65 Quotes by Edward Dahlberg

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

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

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.

We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism.

It is hideous and coarse to assume that we can do something for others-and it is vile not to endeavor to do it.

The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Of all the animals on earth, none is so brutish as man when he seeks the delirium of coition.

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.