Edmund Wilson Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Edmund Wilson:

No two persons ever read the same book.
~Edmund Wilson


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His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
~Edmund Wilson


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The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
~Edmund Wilson


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Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
~Edmund Wilson


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If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.
~Edmund Wilson


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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
~Edmund Wilson


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There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
~Edmund Wilson


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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
~Edmund Wilson


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The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
~Edmund Wilson


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Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.
~Edmund Wilson


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