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