Edmund Wilson quotes

It may be that there is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income. (Edmund Wilson)
No two persons ever read the same book. View quote
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Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals. View quote
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Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't. View quote
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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. View quote
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In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice. View quote
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Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods. View quote
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A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking. View quote
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Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break. View quote
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If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments. View quote
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Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty. (Edmund Wilson)
If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it. View quote
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Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense. View quote
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You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten. View quote
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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt. View quote
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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. View quote
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I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited exchange of ideas. View quote
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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind. View quote
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The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society. View quote
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Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine. View quote
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Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back. (Edmund Wilson)
One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills. View quote
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Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air. View quote
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Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough. View quote
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A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie. View quote
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