Edmund Wilson Quotes - Page 2

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• I think with my right hand.

  Edmund Wilson

  Thinking, Hands

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• All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

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  Hollywood, Absolutes

  Edmund Wilson (1977). “Letters on Literature and Politics, 1912-1972”

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• I really can't stand any more to pay for a burst of animation when someone comes in for drinks with a depressed and low-keyed next day, in which I have to go around on my hands and knees.

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  Hands, Next Day, Pay

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• The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity, characteristics which are natural to him as a Jew.

  Edmund Wilson

  Humanity, Causes, Communism

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• They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.

  Edmund Wilson

  Special, Ordinary, Politeness

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• The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

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  Imagination, Vision, Artistic

  Edmund Wilson (1977). “Letters on Literature and Politics, 1912-1972”

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• The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

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  Imagination, Possibility, Humans

  Edmund Wilson (2007). “Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s & 40s”

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• Old-fogyism is comfortably closing in.

  Edmund Wilson

  Age, Aging, Closing

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• Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

  Edmund Wilson

  Real, Genius, Moral

  Edmund Wilson (2007). “Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s & 40s”

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