They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is else... by Edmund Wilson

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

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Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appe... by Edmund Wilson

Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.

tricks appearance art

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.

drink men ideas

I think with my right hand. by Edmund Wilson

I think with my right hand.

hands thinking

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibilit... by Edmund Wilson

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

possibility humans imagination

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engi... by Edmund Wilson

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

moral genius real

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.

communism causes humanity

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutel... by Edmund Wilson

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

absolutes hollywood

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals. by Edmund Wilson

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

opium marxism

Old-fogyism is comfortably closing in. by Edmund Wilson

Old-fogyism is comfortably closing in.

closing aging age

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind. by Edmund Wilson

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

poet kind

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.

next-day pay hands

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

artistic vision imagination

At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.

elderly gout sometimes