Zitat des Tages von Edmund Wilson:
Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.
His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
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 heart.
I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
No two persons ever read the same book.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.