Edmund Wilson Quotes

I have had a good many more uplifting thoughts, creative and expansive visions—while soaking in comfortable baths or drying myself after bracing showers—in well-equipped American bathrooms than I have ever had in any cathedral. Here the body purges itself, and along with the body, the spirit.

bath

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

money

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

insight

In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

reading books