All Edmund Wilson Quotes
- The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination. Artistic
- Keep going; never stop; sit tight; Read something luminous at night. Going Never
- 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… All
- His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship. Dear
- I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about. Calmly
- 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,’… Deliberate
- All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely. Absolute
- In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice. Author
- 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… Bricks
- It is certainly very hard to write about sex in English without making it unattractive. English
- If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. Advice
- In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution. Both
- The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg. Booth
- Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine. Any
- The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society. Already Come
- Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances. Appearance
- They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness. Civil
- The great mistake about Europe is taking the countries seriously and letting them quarrel and drop bombs on one another. Bombs
- 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… Art
- 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… Animation
- I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind. Inspirational
- 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… Any
- No two persons ever read the same book. Book
- Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals. Inspirational
- There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income. Adequate