Quotes from 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.

    Food | Peace | Heart


    No two persons ever read the same book.

    Persons


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

    Society | Conceive


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

    Life | Style | Ship


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

    Vision | Product | Scientific


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

    Start | Moral | Genius


    All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

    Hollywood | Corrupts


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

    Quite | Poet


    Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

    Opium | Marxism


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

    Small | Income | Adequate


       

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