Wilfrid Sheed - Talk Quotes

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I rail against writers who talk about the loneliness of it all — what do they want, a crowd looking over their typewriters? Or those who talk about having to stare at a blank page — do they want someone to write on it?

Wilfrid Sheed

The worse we treat people in this country, the more delicately we talk about them.

Wilfrid Sheed

The rational man may talk a good game about suicide, but reason must give way to obsession and finally squalor before he can actually do it.

Wilfrid Sheed

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.

Wilfrid Sheed

People talk about talent as though it were some neutral substance that can be applied to anything. But talent is narrow and only functions with a very few subjects, which it is up to the writer to find.

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