Edmund Wilson Quotes.

1. "No two persons ever read the same book."
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2. "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."
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3. "No hay dos personas que lean el mismo libro."
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4. "I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about."
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5. "Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals"
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6. "There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income."
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7. "She was one of those women whose features are not perfect and who in their moments of dimness may not seem even pretty, but who, excited by the blood or the spirit, become almost supernaturally beautiful."
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8. "The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since being shot by Booth was to have fallen into the hands of Carl Sandburg."
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9. "No two persons ever read the same book"
- Quote by Edmund Wilson

10. "It is a proof of the divergence of the tendencies of the socialist and the bourgeois pictures of history—and from now on there will be two distinct historical cultures running side by side without ever really fusing—that people who have been brought up on the conventional version of history and know all about the Robespierrist Terror during the Great French Revolution, should find it an unfamiliar fact that the Terror of the government of Thiers executed, imprisoned or exiled more people—the number has been estimated at a hundred thousand—in that one week of the suppression of the [Paris] Commune [of 1871] than the revolutionary Terror of Robespierre had done in three years."
- Quote by Edmund Wilson