Quote #3

It may be that there is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

More from Edmund Wilson

  1. Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods.
  2. Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.
  3. In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.
  4. He was, as painted, aristocratic, beyond any writer I've met, but in a Jeffersonian-American way that brooked no artificial distinctions. T…
  5. Wilson was not, in the academic sense, a scholar or historian. He was an enormous reader, one of those readers who are perpetually on the s…
  6. He was the perfect autodidact. He wanted to know it all.
  7. Wilson is not like other critics; some critics are boring even when they are original; he fascinates even when he is wrong.

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