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Quotes from Essays in Disguise — Wilfrid Sheed

1930–2011 England

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The bad debater never knows that one explanation is better than five.

Essays in Disguise (1990)

Off she'd go to the hospital, a place I believe she secretly liked because they treat you like a child there.

Essays in Disguise (1990)

A deadly streak of passivity of a kind that sometimes goes with perfectionism.

Essays in Disguise (1990)

Whether or not Big Brother is watching us, we certainly have to watch him, which may be even worse.

Essays in Disguise (1990)

Of course, history is only a muddle of facts and a fuddle of professors, and anyone who thinks it is one clear voice saying "Arise, sir Knight" deserves a life sentence in Camelot.

Essays in Disguise (1990)

Through the burgeoning university network, it was suddenly possible to think of oneself as a national poet, even if the nation turned out to consist entirely of English departments.

Essays in Disguise (1990)

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.

Essays in Disguise (1990)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Wilfrid Sheed (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.