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
humanity causes communism
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.
special ordinary politeness
They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.
imagination vision artistic
The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
lasts periods
Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods.
hollywood absolutes
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
elderly gout sometimes
At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.
real genius moral
Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
night luminous keep-going
Keep going; never stop; sit tight; Read something luminous at night.
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If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
country mistake europe
The great mistake about Europe is taking the countries seriously and letting them quarrel and drop bombs on one another.
art believe giving
One didn't really believe till one saw it demonstrated that giving oneself up completely to art, to emotion, to enjoyment, without planning for the future or counting the cost, produced dreadful disabilities and bankruptcies later.
hands ideas advice
On the one hand, I have wanted to supply documentation on myself by including material relevant to my emotions and ideas in my youth; and, on the other, not to let myself down by publishing inferior material. My poetry comes under the latter head. My only advice to the reader is to skip any verse that he sees coming.
life heart fire
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.
art appearance tricks
Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.