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…

Quote by Edmund Wilson

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Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

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...

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

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

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

No two people read the same book.

No two people read the same book.

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...

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.

No two persons ever read the same book.

No two persons ever read the same book.

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.

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.

No two persons ever read the same book.

No two persons ever read the same book.

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...

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure...

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure...

Old age is a shipwreck.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Old age is no place for sissies.

Old age is no place for sissies.

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy...

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy...

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider...

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider...

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit...

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit...

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the...

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the...

Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to

Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to

For the first time in history, sex is more dangerous than the cigarette afterward.

For the first time in history, sex is more dangerous than the cigarette afterward.