8 Quotes & Sayings By Edmund Wilson

Edmund Wilson was born in New York City and spent most of his childhood there. He was raised by his mother after his father's death, and he attended the City College of New York on a scholarship awarded by Stanford University, where he studied philosophy. Wilson's first job after college was as a cub reporter and editorial assistant for the Brooklyn Eagle. During these years he met and became friends with T Read more

S. Eliot and Sherwood Anderson, who helped him with his first book of poetry. In 1917 he began to work as a journalist for the New Republic and went on to write for Vanity Fair during the 1920s before breaking into publishing with The New Yorker in 1928.

No two persons ever read the same book.
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No two persons ever read the same book. Edmund Wilson
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No two person, ever read the same book. Edmund Wilson
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He believes, but he does not believe: the impossibility of believing is the impossibility which he accepts most reluctantly, but still it is there with the other impossibilities of this world which is too full of weeping for a child to understand. Edmund Wilson
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I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about. Edmund Wilson
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What a gulf between the self which experiences and the self which describes experience. Edmund Wilson
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Capitalism has run its course, and we shall have to look for other ideals than the ones that capitalism has encouraged. Edmund Wilson
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I think with my right hand. Edmund Wilson