"It is certainly very hard to write about……" — Edmund Wilson

"It is certainly very hard to write about sex in English without making it unattractive."

— Edmund Wilson

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29 Quotes by Edmund Wilson

Edmund Wilson has 29 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
Keep going; never stop; sit tight; Read something luminous at night.
The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all…
His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.
The only thing that we can really make is our work, and deliberate work of the mind, imagination and hand,…
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the…
If I could only remember that the days were not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built…
If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are…
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 English Quotes

This quote is filed under English Quotes, one of 2,324 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. — David Attenborough
You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense. — Margaret Atwood
I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime… — John James Audubon
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. — Walter Bagehot
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker
'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time… — Christian Bale
I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and… — Javier Bardem
I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old… — Drew Barrymore
I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back. — Felix Baumgartner
I do love cricket - it's so very English. — Sarah Bernhardt
The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes. — Thomas Beecham
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. — Robert Benchley

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