Edmund Wilson Quotes

No two persons ever read the same book.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.

I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited exchange of ideas.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

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.

I think with my right hand.