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• As things now stand, the office is a slightly meaner battleground than the home. Male bosses seem to dominate their women underlings as they would never dominate their wives.

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  Home, Wife, Office

  Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word and other words”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Every writer is a writer of the generation before.

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  Generations

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• For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for whom it was the land of Father Says.

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  Father, Land, Catholic

  Wilfrid sheed (1986). “FRANK MAISIE”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• Baseball fans are pedants, there is no other kind.

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  Baseball, Fans, Pedants

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• The spiritual life becomes very simple when you're sick.

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  Spiritual, Simple, Sick

  Wilfrid Sheed (1999). “In Love with Daylight: A Memoir of Recovery”

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• It is possible that the malice of writers has been overrated (by myself among others). Reading their ruminations on their craft, one sees why this writer could not possibly like that one, would indeed consider him a menace. Literature is a battleground of conflicting faiths, and nobler passions than envy are involved.

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  Reading, Passion, Envy

  Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word and other words”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• How does one make a movie about decadence these days? Now that we're allowed to do it, it's too late.

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  Doe, Too Late, Decadence

  Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word and other words”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Beware the fictionist writing his own life. Even candor becomes a strategy.

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  Writing, Strategy, Candor

  Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word & other words”, Dutton Adult

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• The 1930s - a Golden Age for American humor, mainly because everything else was going so badly. The wisecrack was the basic American sentence because there were so many things that could not be said any other way.

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  Age, Golden, Way

  Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word & other words”, Dutton Adult

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• As you approach the presidency, no one seems worthy of it, since it wasn't designed for a human in the first place.

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  Firsts, Worthy, Approach

  Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word & other words”, Dutton Adult

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• 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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  People, Substance, Talent

  Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word & other words”, Dutton Adult

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• Mushy reviews are a breach of faith

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  Reviews, Breach

  Wilfrid Sheed (1990). “Essays in Disguise”, Alfred A. Knopf

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