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Edmund Wilson Quotes

Type:
Critic Quotes
Category:
American Critic Quotes
Date of Birth:
May 8, 1895
Date of Death:
June 12, 1972
Nationality:
American
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
Edmund Wilson

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
Edmund Wilson

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
Edmund Wilson

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

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.
Edmund Wilson

No two persons ever read the same book.
Edmund Wilson

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
Edmund Wilson

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
Edmund Wilson

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
Edmund Wilson

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



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