Wilfrid Sheed quotes - page 2

The odds on any intelligent person having an unhappy childhood are better than fair, and the odds on a sad ending are practically off the board. (Wilfrid Sheed)
The best comedy is always heartless, an alternative to rational emotion. View quote
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That is the best story he could find in his life, never mind if it's the truest: an artist's duty is always to tell the best story. View quote
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He was truly after an art in which the creator could be as intelligent as he liked, but in which intelligence must be transmuted entirely into form, so that no lumps of thinking are left showing. View quote
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Off she'd go to the hospital, a place I believe she secretly liked because they treat you like a child there. View quote
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The one kind of society that the Church cannot adjust to is no society at all, i.e., a setup where community has become so fragmented that a communal religion is a fiction, sustained only by talk and make-news items in the press and television. View quote
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