Edmund Wilson

No two persons ever read the same book. ↗

— Edmund Wilson

#ever #persons #read #same #two

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely. ↗

— Edmund Wilson

#absolutely #corrupts #hollywood

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

— Edmund Wilson

#dear #desperate #fiddling #his #life

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

— Edmund Wilson

#i #i am #kind #poet #quite

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

#built #could #days #dwell #fires

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals. ↗

— Edmund Wilson

#marxism #opium

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

— Edmund Wilson

#engine #genius #insight #moral #motor

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

— Edmund Wilson

#come #conceive #human #human imagination #human society

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

— Edmund Wilson

#imagination #like #new #product #relations

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

— Edmund Wilson

#demoralizing #income #more #nothing #small