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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfrid-sheed/how-does-one-make-a-movie-about-decadence-these-days-now-that-we-re/)

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## More by Wilfrid Sheed

> [For now, I'm supposing that all movements are equal, which they're not, except in this respect: that none of them gives a damn about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfrid-sheed/for-now-i-m-supposing-that-all-movements-are-equal-which-they-re-not/)

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> [I myself have not met a self-confessed liberal since the late fifties (and even then it was a tacky thing to admit, like coming…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfrid-sheed/i-myself-have-not-met-a-self-confessed-liberal-since-the-late-fifties/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfrid-sheed/for-catholics-before-vatican-ii-the-land-of-the-free-was-pre/)

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> [I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfrid-sheed/i-picked-up-the-writing-on-the-very-day-he-died-it-was-the-only/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfrid-sheed/it-is-possible-that-the-malice-of-writers-has-been-overrated-by/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfrid-sheed/as-things-now-stand-the-office-is-a-slightly-meaner-battleground-than/)

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> [Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfrid-sheed/mankind-has-always-made-too-much-of-its-saints-and-heroes-and-how-the/)

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> [Mushy reviews are a breach of faith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfrid-sheed/mushy-reviews-are-a-breach-of-faith/)

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> [The actual Irish weather report is really a recording made in 1922, which no one has had occasion to change. "Scattered showers, periods of sunshine."](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfrid-sheed/the-actual-irish-weather-report-is-really-a-recording-made-in-1922/)

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> [The town is as full as ever of 'characters,' all created by each other.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfrid-sheed/the-town-is-as-full-as-ever-of-characters-all-created-by-each-other/)

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> [You noodle around with tempo and sound until you get the perfect fit for that particular song, and then, so long as you can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfrid-sheed/you-noodle-around-with-tempo-and-sound-until-you-get-the-perfect-fit/)

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> [Every writer is a writer of the generation before.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfrid-sheed/every-writer-is-a-writer-of-the-generation-before/)

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> [Mr Michener, as timeless as a stack of National Geographics, is the ultimate Summer Writer. Just as one goes back to the cottage in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfrid-sheed/mr-michener-as-timeless-as-a-stack-of-national-geographics-is-the/)

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> [Of course, history is only a muddle of facts and a fuddle of professors, and anyone who thinks it is one clear voice saying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfrid-sheed/of-course-history-is-only-a-muddle-of-facts-and-a-fuddle-of/)

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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfrid-sheed/how-does-one-make-a-movie-about-decadence-these-days-now-that-we-re/)

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