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

~Edmund Wilson

Topics: Adequate Demoralizing Income More Nothing Small Than

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Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

~Edmund Wilson

Topics: Intellectuals Marxism Opium

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

~Edmund Wilson

Topics: Any Engine Genius Insight Moral Motor Real Start Which Will

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

~Edmund Wilson

Topics: Come Conceive Human Human Society Imagination Possibility Society

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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

Topics: Bricks Built Could Days Dwell Fires Food Heart House If I Could Laid Might Only Peace Remember Row Safety Solid Were Where

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No two persons ever read the same book.

~Edmund Wilson

Topics: Book Ever Persons Read Same Two

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

~Edmund Wilson

Topics: Am Kind Poet Quite Something I Am

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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

~Edmund Wilson

Topics: Absolute Absolutely Corrupts Hollywood

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

~Edmund Wilson

Topics: Away Dear Desperate His Life Orchestra Ship Sinking Style

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

~Edmund Wilson

Topics: Artistic Imagination Like New Product Relations Scientific Vision

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: May 8th, 1895

Died: June 12th, 1972

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