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.
Source: Alms for Oblivion, No Love and No Thanks (1964).
-- Edward Dahlberg, (Jul 22 1900-1977), US novelist, critic; He wrote Bottom Dogs, 1929.