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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.

— Edmund Wilson

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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)

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