"It's the old case against symbols: if you get them, they seem obvious and artificial, and if you don't, you miss the whole point."

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

Wilfrid Sheed

#Missing Quotes #Cases Quotes #Obvious Quotes

“Remember Judy Garland? She retired 40 times.”
“Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.”
“You keep life on a short leash.â€ â€œWhatâ€™s that supposed to mean?â€ â€œYouâ€™re scared of what you canâ€™t control.”
“George Best was the greatest player in the world.”
“The term Hispanic, coined by technomarketing experts and by the designers of political campaigns, homogenizes our cultural diversity (Chicanos, Cubans, and Puerto Ricans become indistinguishable), avoids our indigenous cultural heritage and links us directly with Spain. Worse yet, it possesses connotations of upward mobility and political obedience.”

Source : Guillermo Gomez-Pena (1993). “Warrior for Gringostroika: Essays, Performance Texts, and Poetry”
“Rumors chase the dead like flies, and we follow them with our prim noses. None of us are gossips, but we love listening to those who are.”

Source : Stephen L. Carter (2007). “New England White”, Knopf
“The older I got, the more aware I became of time and how I was wasting mine.”
“There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, - no doubt we are, - but your certainty that your opinions are pearls.”

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