Edmund Wilson Quotes.

11. "...an acquaintance with the great works of art and thought is the only real insurance against the barbarism of the time."
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12. "In his novels from beginning to end, Dickens is making the same point always: that to the English governing classes the people they govern are not real."
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13. "While the romantic individualist deludes himself with unrealizable fantasies, in the attempt to evade bourgeois society, and only succeeds in destroying himself, he lets humanity fall a victim to the industrial-commercial processes, which, unimpeded by his dreaming, go on with their deadly work."
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14. "The experience of mankind on the earth is always changing as man develops and has to deal with new combinations of elements; and the writer who is to be anything more than an echo of his predecessors must always find expression for something which has never yet been expressed, must master a new set of phenomena. . . . With each such victory of the human intellect, whether in history, in philosophy or in poetry, we experience a deep satisfaction: we have been cured of some ache of disorder, relieved of some oppressive burden of uncomprehended events."
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15. "What a gulf between the self which experiences and the self which describes experience."
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16. "No two person, ever read the same book."
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17. "No two persons every read the same book."
- Quote by Edmund Wilson

18. "No two persons ever read the same book. -Edmund Wilson"
- Quote by Edmund Wilson

19. "[Northerners] took over the Southern myth and themselves began to revel in it. This acceptance was to culminate in Gone With the Wind, the enormous success of which novel makes a curious counterbalance to that of Uncle Tom's Cabin. But it began in the Century of the eighties with the stories of Thomas Nelson Page. Though Page had been only twelve at the end of the Civil War, so had had little experience of the old regime, he really invented for the popular mind Old Massa and Mistis and Meh Lady, with their dusky-skinned adoring retainers. The Northerners, after the shedding of so much blood, illogically found it soothing to be told that slavery had not been so bad, that the Negroes were a lovable but simple race, whose business was to work for whites. And Page also struck in his stories a note of reconciliation that everybody wanted to hear: he cooked up romances between young Northern officers, as gentlemanly as any Southerner, and spirited plantation beauties who might turn out to be the young men's cousins and who in any case would marry them after the war."
- Quote by Edmund Wilson

20. "No two persons ever read the same book"."
- Quote by Edmund Wilson