Author: Edmund Wilson

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

(1895 – 1972) writer and literary & social critic
Money

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

(1895 – 1972) writer and literary & social critic
Insults

The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.

(1895 – 1972) writer and literary & social critic
Insults