American - Critic | May 8, 1895 - June 12, 1972
His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
Edmund Wilson
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Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.
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No two persons ever read the same book.
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Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
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If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.
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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
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There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
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The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
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