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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“...an acquaintance with the great works of art and thought is the only real insurance against the barbarism of the time.” — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine. — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
“She was one of those women whose features are not perfect and who in their moments of dimness may not seem even pretty, but… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
“It is a proof of the divergence of the tendencies of the socialist and the bourgeois pictures of history—and from now on there will… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
On the one hand, I have wanted to supply documentation on myself by including material relevant to my emotions and ideas in my youth;… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity, characteristics which… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society. — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
