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"18 Edmund Wilson Quotes & Sayings

      American     /    
Born: 8 May 1895. Died: 12 June 1972 | Writer | Critic |

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

Read Learned Papers Fools
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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.

Remember Days Not bricks Bricks.
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Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.
Marxism Opium Intellectuals.
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Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

Real genius Moral Insight Motor
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The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society

Human Imagination Conceive Possibility
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The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

Product Scientific Imagination Vision
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In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.

Disorder Stress Fanatic Prominent
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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.

Immoral Disgraceful Dangerous tImmoral Disgraceful
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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.

Curious Quotient Excited Intelligence
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Keep going; never stop; sit tight; Read something luminous at night.
Going Stop Tight Luminous
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If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
Lead Dog Scenery.
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His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

Desperate Jauntiness Orchestra Fiddling
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It is certainly very hard to write about sex in English without making it unattractive.
Hard Sex Unattractive.
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The great mistake about Europe is taking the countries seriously and letting them quarrel and drop bombs on one another

Mistake Europe Quarrel Drop bomb
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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

Demonstrated To art Emotion Future
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Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods.
Education Last hope Liberal Period.
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Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances
Work Art Trick Artist
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There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Nothing Demoralizing Adequate Income
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Edmund Wilson Quotes & Sayings