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His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
— Edmund Wilson
The great mistake about Europe is taking the countries seriously and letting them quarrel and drop bombs on one another.
— Edmund Wilson
All phenomena do not inherently exist because of being dependent-arisings. All phenomena do not inherently exist because of being dependently imputed.
— Gautama Buddha
It is certainly very hard to write about sex in English without making it unattractive.
— Edmund Wilson
I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
— Edmund Wilson
An acquaintance with the great works of art and thought is the only real insurance against the barbarism of the time.
— Edmund Wilson
Never in the history of human credit has so much been owed.
— Margaret Thatcher
Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.
— Edmund Beecher Wilson
The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since being shot by Booth was to have fallen into the hands of Carl Sandburg.
— Edmund Wilson
In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.
— Edmund Wilson
No two persons every read the same book.
— Edmund Wilson
Happiness, it's a small thing - just a very little thing.
— Michael Leunig
The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
— Edmund Wilson
Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals
— Edmund Wilson
I'd always thought hurricanes were romantic, with pretty feminine names like Celestine.
— Mark Shand
In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.
— Edmund Wilson
The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude.
— Henry David Thoreau
Capitalism has run its course, and we shall have to look for other ideals than the ones that capitalism has encouraged.
— Edmund Wilson
No two persons ever read the same book.
— Edmund Wilson
What a gulf between the self which experiences and the self which describes experience.
— Edmund Wilson
At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.
— Edmund Wilson
Don't expect a man will try any harder to keep you than he did to get you.
— Angela N. Blount
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They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.
— Edmund Wilson
The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
— Edmund Wilson
No two person, ever read the same book.
— Edmund Wilson