I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about. Edmund Wilson More Quotes by Edmund Wilson More Quotes From Edmund Wilson Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances. Edmund Wilson tricksappearanceart 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. Edmund Wilson drinkmenideas I think with my right hand. Edmund Wilson handsthinking The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society. Edmund Wilson possibilityhumansimagination Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine. Edmund Wilson moralgeniusreal 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 communismcauseshumanity All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely. Edmund Wilson absoluteshollywood Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals. Edmund Wilson opiummarxism Old-fogyism is comfortably closing in. Edmund Wilson closingagingage I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind. Edmund Wilson poetkind 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. Edmund Wilson next-daypayhands The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination. Edmund Wilson artisticvisionimagination At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout. Edmund Wilson elderlygoutsometimes
