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Edmund Wilson Quotes

1895–1972 United States

Edmund Wilson (8 May 1895 – 12 June 1972) was an American writer and literary critic.

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In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

The Triple Thinkers (1938)

There is really no way of considering a book independently of one's special sensations in reading it on a particular occasion.

The Triple Thinkers (1938)

It may be that there is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

Memoirs of Hecate County (1946)

Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods.

To the Finland Station : A Study in the Acting and Writing of History (1940)

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

Memoirs of Hecate County (1946)

The more I have thought about Figures of Earth — and its sequel The Silver Stallion — the more remarkable they have come to seem.

James Branch Cabell 1897 - 1958 (1958)

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 one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.

A dollar is something that you multiply — something that causes an expansion of your house and your mechanical equipment, something that accelerates like speed; and that may be also slowed up or deflated. It is a value that may be totally imaginary, yet can for a time provide half-realized dreams.

Europe without Baedeker (1947)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Edmund Wilson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.