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Edmund Wilson Quotes - Page 2

All Quotes Art Imagination

I think with my right hand.

I think with my right hand.

Thinking, Hands

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

Hollywood, Absolutes

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

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.

Hands, Next Day, Pay

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.

Humanity, Causes, Communism

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

Special, Ordinary, Politeness

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

Imagination, Possibility, Humans

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

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

Imagination, Vision, Artistic

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

Old-fogyism is comfortably closing in.

Age, Aging, Closing

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

Real, Genius, Moral

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

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