"At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits……" — Edmund Wilson
"At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout."
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Edmund Wilson
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29 Quotes by Edmund Wilson
Edmund Wilson has 29 quotes on this site.
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The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
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Keep going; never stop; sit tight; Read something luminous at night.
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The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all…
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His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
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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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The only thing that we can really make is our work, and deliberate work of the mind, imagination and hand,…
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the…
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If I could only remember that the days were not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built…
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It is certainly very hard to write about sex in English without making it unattractive.
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If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
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In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are…
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More Elderly Quotes
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Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which…
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day…
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It is always in season for old men to learn.
— Aeschylus
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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep…
— Alan Bleasdale
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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred…
— Lord Byron
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After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services…
— Tony Campolo
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No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.
— John Cassavetes
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If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.
— Bill Gates
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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to…
— Maya Angelou
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The elderly have so much to offer. They're our link with history.
— John Cusack
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