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

Quote by Edmund Wilson

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Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

No two persons ever read the same book.

No two persons ever read the same book.

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it...

At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it...

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

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

No two persons ever read the same book.

No two persons ever read the same book.

No two people read the same book.

No two people read the same book.

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

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

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

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

If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row...

If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row...

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

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

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