Quotes by Edmund Wilson

• No two persons ever read the same book.
• There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
• The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
• Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
• Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.
• The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
• I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
• His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
• All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
• 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.