Top 5 Mark Edmundson Quotes (2025 Update)

Mark Edmundson Quote: “In later life most good things happen very slowly; only bad things tend to happen fast.”

1. “In later life most good things happen very slowly; only bad things tend to happen fast.”

2. “My students, alas, usually lack the confidence to acknowledge what would be their most precious asset for learning: their ignorance.”

— Mark Edmundson

3. “The reason to read Blake and Dickinson and Freud and Dickens is not to become more cultivated or more articulate... The best reason to read them is to see if they may know you better than you know yourself. You may find your own suppressed and rejected thoughts flowing back to you with an “alienated majesty.”

— Mark Edmundson

4. “What Proust is describing is an act of self-discovery on the part of his reader. Immersing herself in Proust, the reader may encounter aspects of herself that, while they have perhaps been in existence for a long time, have remained unnamed, undescribed, and therefore in a certain sense unknown. One might say that the reader learns the language of herself.”

— Mark Edmundson

5. “People who have taught themselves how to live – what to be, what to do – from reading great works will not be overly susceptible to the culture industry’s latest wares. They’ll be able to sample them, or turn completely away – they’ll have better things on their minds.”

— Mark Edmundson

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