"Saloons provide moments of genuine ecstasy - but only if your soul is at peace and the rest of your life bears contemplating. Otherwise, they are palaces of misery."

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

Wilfrid Sheed

#Soul Quotes #Palaces Quotes #Bears Quotes

“The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.”
“I saw a man walk into my camera viewfinder from the left. He took a pistol out of his holster and raised it. I had no idea he would shoot. It was common to hold a pistol to the head of prisoners during questioning. So I prepared to make that picture - the threat, the interrogation. But it didn't happen. The man just pulled a pistol out of his holster, raised it to the VC's head and shot him in the temple. I made a picture at the same time. (On his 1968 photograph of the summary street corner execution of prisoner Nguyen Van Lem by South Vietnam's police chief, Lt. Col. Nguyen Ngoc Loan.)”
“When you're a comic, it's like being born gay. It's what you want to do every night when your other friends are out at night going to parties.”
“True stories are always good because they're so odd, and so unlikely.”
“There are certain people who will always seek to criticize. This has nothing to do with you. It must be hard to be inside their head, you know? I mean if they find so much fault in everyone around them... then one can only imagine the faults they must see in themselves.”
“Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.”
“To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.”
“Sometimes when you're suffering really intensely, you can't pray for yourself.”

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