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

--

Source : "Patriotic gore" by Edmund Wilson, (p. 115), 1962.

Edmund Wilson

#Fall Quotes #Hands Quotes #Insult Quotes

“It is Christ's manner to trouble our souls first, and then to come with healing in his wings.”
“...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.”
“I'm optimistic because I'm pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continue to fight, they will both bleed to death.”
“My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.”
“[T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their, own sphere of action, but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch.”
“Philosophers and theologians have yet to learn that a physical fact is as sacred as a moral principle. Our own nature demands from us this double allegiance.”
“Washington...has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled the Roman Empire.”
“You can get by on charm for about 15 minutes. After that, you better know something.”

You may also like:

Anais Nin
Author
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Author
James Joyce
Novelist
Lionel Trilling
Literary critic
Malcolm Cowley
Novelist
Marcel Proust
Novelist
Mary McCarthy
Author
T. S. Eliot
Playwright
Vladimir Nabokov
Novelist