"The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln……" — Edmund Wilson
"The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg."
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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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I'm totally down with insurrection in the street. I've had a great time with that over the years. Insurrection in…
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Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in…
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I am sure that every one of my colleagues - Democrat, Republican, and Independent - agrees with that statement. That…
— Barbara Boxer
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The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky -…
— David Byrne
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But what was most remarkable, Broadway being three miles long, and the booths lining each side of it, in every…
— Frederick Marryat
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A guy gave me a job at an information booth - no questions asked.
— Jay London
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Sometimes language gets in the way of the story's feelings. The reader finds himself experiencing the language of the story…
— Leonard Michaels
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We of the richer societies, who have had access to more energy than we have the experience to wield intelligently…
— Alfred W. Crosby
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I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to…
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth.
— Eleanor Clift
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When I write a song today, basically it goes on the stage tomorrow. That's the way it works. You cannont…
— Richie Havens
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