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Edmund Wilson (May 8, 1895 – June 12, 1972) was an American writer and critic who explored Freudian and Marxist themes. He influenced many American authors, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose unfinished work he edited for publication. His scheme for a Library of America series of national classic works came to fruition through the efforts of Jason Epstein after Wilson's death.

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In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.

Critics, Peace, Play, Stress, Truth

No two persons ever read the same book.

Inspirational, Book, Reading, Same, Persons

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

Intellectuals, Marxism, Opium

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

Kind, Poet, Quite

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

Adequate, Income, Money, Nothing, Small

It is certainly very hard to write about sex in English without making it unattractive.

English, Hard, Sex, Unattractive, Writing

Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods.

Education, Hope, Lasts, Liberal, Periods

In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

Book, Read, Same, Sense, Twice

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, Expect, Gaiety, Ideas, Men, Uninhibited

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

Engine, Genius, Moral, Real

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

Elderly, Gout, Like, Sharper, Sometimes

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

Fiddling, Inspire, Life, Sinking, Style

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

Artistic, Imagination, Product, Relations, Vision

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

Fool, Fools, Hate, Paper, Read

The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.

Booth, Carl, Fall, Hands, Insult, Shot

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

Appearance, Appearances, Art, Manipulates, Tricks, Work

The great mistake about Europe is taking the countries seriously and letting them quarrel and drop bombs on one another.

Bombs, Country, Europe, Mistake, Quarrel

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

Elsewhere, Ordinary, Politeness, Special, Word

The only thing that we can really make is our work, and deliberate work of the mind, imagination and hand, done, as Nietzsche said, ‘notwithstanding,’ in the long run remakes the world.

Hand, Hands, Long, Running, Work, World

I think with my right hand.

Hand, Hands, Right, Think, Thinking

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