Edmund Wilson Quotes

Capitalism has run its course, and we shall have to look for other ideals than the ones that capitalism has encouraged.

No two persons ever read the same book.

He believes, but he does not believe: the impossibility of believing is the impossibility which he accepts most reluctantly, but still it is there with the other impossibilities of this world which is too full of weeping for a child to understand.

What a gulf between the self which experiences and the self which describes experience.

I think with my right hand.

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

No two person, ever read the same book.