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Edmund Wilson
American
Critic
About the author
No two persons ever read the same book.
Edmund Wilson,
American
Critic
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Edmund Wilson,
American
Critic
#Nothing
#Income
The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
Edmund Wilson,
American
Critic
#Vision
#Imagination
Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
Edmund Wilson,
American
Critic
#Will
#Genius
Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.
Edmund Wilson,
American
Critic
#Intellectuals
#Opium
#Marxism
The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
Edmund Wilson,
American
Critic
#Imagination
#Society
#Possibility
I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
Edmund Wilson,
American
Critic
His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
Edmund Wilson,
American
Critic
#Life
#Style
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
Edmund Wilson,
American
Critic
#Hollywood
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,
American
Critic
#Heart
#Food
#Peace
#Safety