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.
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Edmund Wilson Jr.was an American writer, literary critic and journalist.
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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.
American writer, literary and social critic, and noted man of letters (1895-1972)
No two persons ever read the same book.
American writer, literary and social critic, and noted man of letters (1895-1972)
Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
American writer, literary and social critic, and noted man of letters (1895-1972)
His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
American writer, literary and social critic, and noted man of letters (1895-1972)
I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
American writer, literary and social critic, and noted man of letters (1895-1972)
The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations – like that of artistic imagination.
American writer, literary and social critic, and noted man of letters (1895-1972)
Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.
American writer, literary and social critic, and noted man of letters (1895-1972)
The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
American writer, literary and social critic, and noted man of letters (1895-1972)
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
American writer, literary and social critic, and noted man of letters (1895-1972)
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
American writer, literary and social critic, and noted man of letters (1895-1972)