They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.
Edmund WilsonAt 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.
Edmund WilsonI find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited exchange of ideas.
Edmund Wilson