"I picked up the writing on the very……" — Wilfrid Sheed
"I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find."
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26 Quotes by Wilfrid Sheed
Wilfrid Sheed has 26 quotes on this site.
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The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.
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Suicide is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets.
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Mr Michener, as timeless as a stack of National Geographics, is the ultimate Summer Writer. Just as one goes back…
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The only reason I didn't kill myself after I read the reviews of my first book was because we have…
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Every writer is a writer of the generation before.
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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…
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Even the God of Calvin never judged anyone as harshly as married couples judge each other.
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If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
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The spiritual life becomes very simple when you're sick.
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Censors will try to censor a little bit more each year (because, like editors and other officious people, censors don't…
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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…
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Unlike most wars, which make rotten fiction in themselves - all plot and no characters, or made-up characters - Vietnam…
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More Consolation Quotes
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The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit…
— Brendan Behan
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all…
— Edmund Burke
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If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one…
— George MacDonald
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Prayer should be the means by which I, at all times, receive all that I need, and, for this reason,…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip…
— Phyllis McGinley
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Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to…
— Tryon Edwards
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For grief is crowned with consolation.
— William Shakespeare
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In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have…
— Albert Camus
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The mother is everything - she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness.…
— Khalil Gibran
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Trials make room for consolation. There is nothing that makes man have a big heart like a great trial. I…
— Charles Spurgeon
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In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.
— Martin Luther
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I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.
— Josh Billings
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