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Edmund Wilson [1895-1972] American
Rank: 104
Critic, Writer


Edmund Wilson was an American writer and critic who notably explored Freudian and Marxian themes. He influenced many American fiction-writers, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose unfinished work he edited for publication.

Imagination, Food, Peace, Society



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