Edmund Wilson
Edmund Wilson
Edmund Wilsonwas an American writer and critic who notably explored Freudian and Marxian themes. He influenced many American fiction-writers, including Scott Fitzgerald, whose unfinished work he edited for publication. His scheme for a Library of America series of national classic works came to fruition through the efforts of Jason Epstein after his death...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth8 May 1895
CountryUnited States of America
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The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity, characteristics which are natural to him as a Jew.
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They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.
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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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Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.
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There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
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No two persons ever read the same book.
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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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A young poet in America should not be advised at the outset to give up all for the Muse-to seclude himself in the country, to live hand from mouth in Greenwich Village or to escape to the Riviera. I should not advise him even to become a magazine editor or work in a publisher's office. The poet would do better to study a profession, to become a banker or a public official or even to go in for the movies.
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The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes.
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Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.
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Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
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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.