His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
- Edmund Wilson
Away, Desperate, His, Fiddling
The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
- Edmund Wilson
Society, Human Imagination, Human Society
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
Bricks, Solid, Laid, Fires
Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
- Edmund Wilson
Genius, Insight, Which, Engine
The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
- Edmund Wilson
Vision, New, Product, Relations
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
- Edmund Wilson
Small, Income, Adequate, Demoralizing
Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.
- Edmund Wilson
Opium, Marxism, Intellectuals
I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
- Edmund Wilson
I Am, Kind, Quite, Poet
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
- Edmund Wilson
Hollywood, Absolutely, Absolute
No two persons ever read the same book.
- Edmund Wilson
Same, Ever, Read, Persons
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