I really can't stand any more to pay for a burst of animation when someone comes in for drinks with a depressed and low-keyed next day, in which I have to go around on my hands and knees.
Edmund WilsonIn a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.
Edmund WilsonThe Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity, characteristics which are natural to him as a Jew.
Edmund Wilson