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

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

Edmund Wilson quotes: The great mistake about Europe is taking the countries seriously and letting them quarrel and drop bombs on one another.

The great mistake about Europe is taking the countries seriously and letting them quarrel and drop bombs on one another.

Edmund Wilson quotes: It is certainly very hard to write about sex in English without making it unattractive.

It is certainly very hard to write about sex in English without making it unattractive.

Edmund Wilson quotes: I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

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

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

Edmund Wilson quotes: An acquaintance with the great works of art and thought is the only real insurance against the barbarism of the time.

An acquaintance with the great works of art and thought is the only real insurance against the barbarism of the time.

Edmund Wilson quotes: The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since being shot by Booth was to have fallen into the hands of Carl Sandburg.

The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since being shot by Booth was to have fallen into the hands of Carl Sandburg.

Edmund Wilson quotes: In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

Edmund Wilson quotes: No two persons every read the same book.

No two persons every read the same book.

Edmund Wilson quotes: Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.

Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.

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

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

Edmund Wilson quotes: Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals

Edmund Wilson quotes: All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

Edmund Wilson quotes: Keep going; never stop; sit tight; Read something luminous at night.

Keep going; never stop; sit tight; Read something luminous at night.

Edmund Wilson quotes: In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.

In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.

Edmund Wilson quotes: Capitalism has run its course, and we shall have to look for other ideals than the ones that capitalism has encouraged.

Capitalism has run its course, and we shall have to look for other ideals than the ones that capitalism has encouraged.

Edmund Wilson quotes: No two persons ever read the same book.

No two persons ever read the same book.

Edmund Wilson quotes: What a gulf between the self which experiences and the self which describes experience.

What a gulf between the self which experiences and the self which describes experience.

Edmund Wilson quotes: At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.

At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.

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

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

Edmund Wilson quotes: They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.

They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.

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

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

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

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

Edmund Wilson quotes: No two person, ever read the same book.

No two person, ever read the same book.