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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 Quotes

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.

American Critic

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

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

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 Quotes

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

No two persons ever read the same book. - Edmund Wilson Quotes

No two persons ever read the same book.

American Critic Books And Reading

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals - Edmund Wilson Quotes

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals

No matter how thoroughly and searchingly we may have scrutinized works of literature from the historical and biographical point of view, we must be able to tell good from bad, the first-rate from the second-rate. We shall otherwise not write literary criticism at all, but merely social or political history as reflected in literary texts, or psychological case histories from past eras. - Edmund Wilson Quotes

No matter how thoroughly and searchingly we may have scrutinized works of literature from the historical and biographical point of view, we must be able to tell good from bad, the first-rate from the second-rate. We shall otherwise not write literary criticism at all, but merely social or political history as reflected in literary texts, or psychological case histories from past eras.

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

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

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

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

American Critic Income

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

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

American Critic Genius

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

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

American Critic Imagination

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