No two people read the same book.
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No matter how thoroughly and searchingly we may have scrutinized works of literature from the historical and biographical point of view, we must be able to tell good from bad, the first-rate from the second-rate. We shall otherwise not write literary criticism at all, but merely social or political history as reflected in literary texts, or psychological case histories from past eras.Edmund Wilson
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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No two persons ever read the same book.
Edmund Wilson
The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
Edmund Wilson
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
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