Edward Dahlberg Quotes
1900–1977 United States
Edward Dahlberg (July 22, 1900 – February 27, 1977) was an American novelist, essayist, and autobiographer.
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Nobody heard her tears; the heart is a fountain of weeping water which makes no noise in the world.
Because I Was Flesh (1963)
What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore.
When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.
Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.
Bosch is great because what he imagines in color can be translated into justice.
The greater part of your misogamy is venal; the other cause of your invective humbug is that you're a muggish homuncle who couldn't raise a flickering ember in a vagabond-laced mutton.
Let the bard from Smyrna catalogue Harma, the ledges and caves of Thaca, the milk-fed damsels of Achaia, pigeon-flocked Thisbe or the woods of Onchestus, I sing of Oak, Walnut, Chesnut, Maple and Elm Streets.
Because I Was Flesh (1963)
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.
Woman is the most superstitious animal beneath the moon. When a woman has a premonition that Tuesday will be a disaster, to which a man pays no heed, he will very likely lose his fortune then. This is not meant to be an occult or mystic remark. The female body is a vessel, and the universe drops its secrets into her far more quickly than it communicates them to the male.