„«Синтаксис русского предложения настолько отличается от нашего, что переводчику, для того чтобы его текст читался гладко, постоянно приходится прибегать к перефразированию».“— Эдмунд Уилсон
„«Не то, чтобы коммунизм был плох сам по себе, но в Америке все это кажется еще менее связанным с реальностью, чем католичество в Англии» (из письма 1930 года).“— Эдмунд УилсонО реальности
„I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited exchange of ideas.“— Edmund Wilson
„She was one of those women whose features are not perfect and who in their moments of dimness may not seem even pretty, but who, excited by the blood or the spirit, become almost supernaturally beautiful.“— Edmund Wilson
„What a gulf between the self which experiences and the self which describes experience.“— Edmund Wilson
„The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since being shot by Booth was to have fallen into the hands of Carl Sandburg.“— Edmund Wilson
„... an acquaintance with the great works of art and thought is the only real insurance against the barbarism of the time.“— Edmund Wilson
„It is a proof of the divergence of the tendencies of the socialist and the bourgeois pictures of history—and from now on there will be two distinct historical cultures running side by side without ever really fusing—that people who have been brought up on the conventional version of history and know all about the Robespierrist Terror during the Great French Revolution, should find it an unfamiliar fact that the Terror of the government of Thiers executed, imprisoned or exiled more people—the number has been estimated at a hundred thousand—in that one week of the suppression of the [Paris] Commune [of 1871] than the revolutionary Terror of Robespierre had done in three years.“— Edmund Wilson
„While the romantic individualist deludes himself with unrealizable fantasies, in the attempt to evade bourgeois society, and only succeeds in destroying himself, he lets humanity fall a victim to the industrial-commercial processes, which, unimpeded by his dreaming, go on with their deadly work.“— Edmund Wilson
