Edmund Wilson Quotes

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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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