“Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.” MenPaySilenceWeaponsCriticismCriticsReviewsCunningCorpsesShamefulHomageCunning Man Author:Edward Dahlberg
“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.” HumansBookGivenHeavenSecretFieldsReaderPagesHundredCriticismCriticsHonestlyNewspapersFiftyFuneralPotters Book:Alms for Oblivion Source: Alms for Oblivion
“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.” PeopleImaginationCriticismCriticsWildernessFloodFrontiersTornadoesTumors Book:Alms for Oblivion Source: Alms for Oblivion