At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.
Edmund Wilson
- More quotations by Critic
Edmund Wilson quotes
At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.
I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.
No two persons ever read the same book.
The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Similiar authors
Lionel Trilling
Alexander Woollcott
Pauline Kael
Stephen Bayley
Eric Bentley
Judith Crist
Aleister Crowley
Pamela Hansford Johnson
Rex Reed
Lytton Strachey