At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.

Quote by Edmund Wilson

Topics: Elderly Quotes, Sex Quotes

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

No two people read the same book.

No two people 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.

No two persons ever read the same book.

No two persons ever 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...

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...

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

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

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.

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

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...

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.

One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old : that...

One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old : that...

If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate...

If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate...

A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life...

A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life...

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and...

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and...

There are two kinds of books: those that no one reads and those that no...

There are two kinds of books: those that no one reads and those that no...

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled,...

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled,...

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule,...

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule,...

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood,...

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood,...