In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.
Edmund WilsonAt 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.
Edmund WilsonThe only thing that we can really make is our work, and deliberate work of the mind, imagination and hand, done, as Nietzsche said, โnotwithstanding,โ in the long run remakes the world.
Edmund WilsonThe cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.
Edmund Wilson