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01Undated

No two persons ever read the same book.

Edmund Wilson / quote

02Undated

No two person, ever read the same book.

Edmund Wilson / quote

03Undated

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 / quote

04Undated

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

Edmund Wilson / quote

05Undated

What a gulf between the self which experiences and the self which describes experience.

Edmund Wilson / quote

06Undated

Capitalism has run its course, and we shall have to look for other ideals than the ones that capitalism has encouraged.

Edmund Wilson / quote

07Undated

I think with my right hand.

Edmund Wilson / quote