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

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

Edward Dahlberg
Cities, People, Solitude
Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, U of Minnesota Press

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.

Edward Dahlberg
Art, Writing, People
Edward Dahlberg (1964). “Alms for oblivion: essays”

Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.

Edward Dahlberg
Men, Giving, Misery
Edward Dahlberg (1965). “Reasons of the heart”

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.

Edward Dahlberg
Imagination, Worry, Together
Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, p.100, U of Minnesota Press

Man is at the nadir of his stregth when the Earth, the seas, the mountains are not in him, for without them his soul is unsourced, and he has no images by which to abide.

Edward Dahlberg
Strength, Men, Sea
Edward Dahlberg (1972). “The sorrows of Priapus: consisting of The sorrows of Priapus and The carnal myth”, Not Avail

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

Edward Dahlberg
Assuming, Coarse, Endeavor
Edward Dahlberg (1965). “Because I was Flesh: The Autobiography of Edward Dahlberg”, p.233, New Directions Publishing

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

Edward Dahlberg
Failure, Achievement, Failing
Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, p.101, U of Minnesota Press

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
Atlantis, Literature, Earth
Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, U of Minnesota Press

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Edward Dahlberg
Strong, Enemy, Weak
Edward Dahlberg, Paul Vincent Carroll (1967). “The Edward Dahlberg Reader”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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.

Edward Dahlberg
Book, Writing, Scott Fitzgerald
Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, p.68, U of Minnesota Press

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