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Edward Dahlberg was an American novelist known for his distinctive writing style and profound depiction of life in the American Midwest. His works are typically based on realism and delve into the complexities of human nature and social injustice.

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Famous Edward Dahlberg Quotes

“There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.”

People Men World Money Race Strange Becoming Eating Idols

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.”

People Imagination Criticism Critics Wilderness Flood Frontiers Tornadoes Tumors

Book:Alms for Oblivion

Source: Alms for Oblivion

“We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.”

People Cities Solitude Gray Solitary Outcast Cain

Book:Alms for Oblivion

Source: Alms for Oblivion

“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.”

People Men Dies Literature Realizing Justice Madness Mad Driven Wit Fewer Sane Lunacy

Book:The Carnal Myth: A Search Into Classical Sensuality

Source: The Carnal Myth: A Search Into Classical Sensuality

“Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.”

People Writing Art Artist Evil Genius Fame Stealing Robbers Cartels

Book:Alms for oblivion: essays

Source: Alms for oblivion: essays

“No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate.”

People Knows Country Reason England Climate Obvious Apples Valleys Temper Maxims New England Orchard Oregon

Book:Alms for oblivion, essays: With a foreword by Sir Herbert Read

Source: Alms for oblivion, essays: With a foreword by Sir Herbert Read

About the Author

Born: July 22, 1900
Died: February 27, 1977
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 60

Books & Sources

Alms for OblivionRelated source material

Reasons of the heartRelated source material

The sorrows of Priapus: consisting of The sorrows of Priapus and The carnal mythRelated source material

Alms for oblivion, essays: With a foreword by Sir Herbert ReadRelated source material

Alms for oblivion: essaysRelated source material

The Carnal Myth: A Search Into Classical SensualityRelated source material

The Edward Dahlberg ReaderRelated source material

Because I was Flesh: The Autobiography of Edward DahlbergRelated source material

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