"His style has the desperate jauntiness of an……" — Edmund Wilson
"His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship."
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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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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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The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands…
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More Dear Quotes
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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
— Aristotle
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!
— Jane Austen
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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
— HonorÈ De Balzac
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Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
— HonorÈ De Balzac
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What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided…
— Brigitte Bardot
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Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
— John Barrymore
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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of…
— Joseph Addison
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A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
— George Ade
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Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats.
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this…
— Jeff Bridges
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