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Edmund Wilson Quotes
«No matter how thoroughly and searchingly we may have scrutinized works of literature from the historical and biographical point of view, we must be able to tell good from bad, the first-rate from the second-rate. We shall otherwise not write literary criticism at all, but merely social or political history as reflected in literary texts, or psychological case histories from past eras.»
Author: Edmund Wilson
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«At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.»
Author: Edmund Wilson
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Elderly,
Sex
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elderly, gout, hits, maladies, malady, preoccupation, sharper
«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.»
«The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.»
«The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations -- like that of artistic imagination.»