Quotes by Edmund Wilson - Page 1

I think with my right hand.
Edmund Wilson / Writer
Hands
Thinking
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Old-fogyism is comfortably closing in.
Edmund Wilson / Writer
Age
Aging
Closing
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No two persons ever read the same book.
Edmund Wilson / Writer
Inspirational
Book
Persons
Reading
Two
Same
Read
Ever
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Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.
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Marxism
Opium
Intellectuals
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If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
Edmund Wilson / Writer
Change
Dog
Poodles
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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
Edmund Wilson / Writer
Kind
Poet
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Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods.
Edmund Wilson / Writer
Lasts
Periods
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
Edmund Wilson / Writer
Absolutes
Hollywood
Absolute
Absolutely
Corrupts
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Keep going; never stop; sit tight; Read something luminous at night.
Edmund Wilson / Writer
Keep Going
Luminous
Night
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There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Edmund Wilson / Writer
Money
Adequate
Demoralizing
Income
Small
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Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
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Genius
Insight
Moral
Motor
Real
Engine
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Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.
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Art
Appearance
Tricks
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I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.
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Fool
Hate
Paper
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It is certainly very hard to write about sex in English without making it unattractive.
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Sex
Unattractive
Writing
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The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
Edmund Wilson / Writer
Imagination
Human Imagination
Humans
Possibility
Conceive
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They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.
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Ordinary
Politeness
Special
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His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
Edmund Wilson / Writer
Life
Dear
Desperate
Inspire
Orchestra
Sinking
Style
Fiddling
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The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
Edmund Wilson / Writer
Imagination
Artistic
Vision
Product
Relations
Scientific
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In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.
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At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.
Edmund Wilson / Writer
Elderly
Gout
Sometimes
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The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.
Edmund Wilson / Writer
Fall
Hands
Insult
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The great mistake about Europe is taking the countries seriously and letting them quarrel and drop bombs on one another.
Edmund Wilson / Writer
Country
Europe
Mistake
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In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.
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Truth
Play
Stress
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I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited exchange of ideas.
Edmund Wilson / Writer
Men
Drink
Ideas
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The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes.
Edmund Wilson / Writer
Art
Ignorance
Taste
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Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
Edmund Wilson / Writer
Education
Inspirational
Intelligence
Learning
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The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity, characteristics which are natural to him as a Jew.
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Causes
Communism
Humanity
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The only thing that we can really make is our work, and deliberate work of the mind, imagination and hand, done, as Nietzsche said, ‘notwithstanding,’ in the long run remakes the world.
Edmund Wilson / Writer
Running
Hands
Long
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I really can't stand any more to pay for a burst of animation when someone comes in for drinks with a depressed and low-keyed next day, in which I have to go around on my hands and knees.
Edmund Wilson / Writer
Hands
Next Day
Pay
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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.
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Life
Fire
Heart
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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.
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Bricks
If I Could
Safety
Fires
Laid
Solid
Row
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From the moment a New Yorker is confronted with almost any large city of Europe, it is impossible for him to pretend to himself that his own city is anything other than an unscrupulous real-estate speculation
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Cities
Europe
Real
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One didn't really believe till one saw it demonstrated that giving oneself up completely to art, to emotion, to enjoyment, without planning for the future or counting the cost, produced dreadful disabilities and bankruptcies later.
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Art
Believe
Giving
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On the one hand, I have wanted to supply documentation on myself by including material relevant to my emotions and ideas in my youth; and, on the other, not to let myself down by publishing inferior material. My poetry comes under the latter head. My only advice to the reader is to skip any verse that he sees coming.
Edmund Wilson / Writer
Advice
Hands
Ideas
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A young poet in America should not be advised at the outset to give up all for the Muse-to seclude himself in the country, to live hand from mouth in Greenwich Village or to escape to the Riviera. I should not advise him even to become a magazine editor or work in a publisher's office. The poet would do better to study a profession, to become a banker or a public official or even to go in for the movies.
Edmund Wilson / Writer
Country
Giving Up
Hands
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