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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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 writer, literary and social critic, and noted man of letters (1895-1972)

No two persons ever read the same book.

Edmund Wilson

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.

Edmund Wilson

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.

Edmund Wilson

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.

Edmund Wilson

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.

Edmund Wilson

American writer, literary and social critic, and noted man of letters (1895-1972)

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

Edmund Wilson

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.

Edmund Wilson

American writer, literary and social critic, and noted man of letters (1895-1972)

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

Edmund Wilson

American writer, literary and social critic, and noted man of letters (1895-1972)

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

Edmund Wilson

American writer, literary and social critic, and noted man of letters (1895-1972)