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Wilfrid Sheed : 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. # Symbols

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Wilfrid Sheed quote-It's the old case against symbols: if you get them, they seem obvious...

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Eric Hoffer : " To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question. " # Symbols

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Cynthia Ozick : " In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better. " # Symbols

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Arthur Koestler : " The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. " # Symbols

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Thomas Carlyle : " In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance. In the symbol proper, what we can call a symbol, there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation of the Infinite; the Infinite is made to blend itself with the Finite, to stand visible, and as it were, attainable there. By symbols, accordingly, is man guided and commanded, made happy, made wretched. " # Symbols

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Hugo Ball : " The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise? " # Symbols

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Friedrich Nietzsche : " Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth. " # Symbols

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Albert Camus : " The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial. " # Symbols

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Dale Carnegie : " I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told. " # Symbols

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle : " There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact. " # Symbols

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Andre Gide : " The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say -- because they were too obvious. " # Symbols

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Wilfrid Sheed: " One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers." # Writers and Writing # Opinions # Humankind

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Wilfrid Sheed: " I rail against writers who talk about the loneliness of it all — what do they want, a crowd looking over their typewriters? Or those who talk about having to stare at a blank page — do they want someone to write on it?" # Writers and Writing # Books - Reading # Loneliness

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Wilfrid Sheed: " Baseball fans are pedants, there is no other kind." # Baseball # Speakers and Speaking # Music

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Wilfrid Sheed: " It had always been a notion of mine that sanity is like a clearing in the jungle where the humans agree to meet from time to time and behave in certain fixed ways that even a baboon could master, like Englishmen dressing for dinner in the tropics." # Music # Dress # Work

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Wilfrid Sheed: " Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test." # Heroes and Heroism # Saints # Failure

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Wilfrid Sheed: " Carmichael was, like many Americans, a divided soul, part nomad and part homebody, who seemed a little bit at home everywhere, but was probably more so someplace else, if he could just find it." # Goals # America # Home

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Wilfrid Sheed: " When a reviewer says that Malamud is second only to Bellow, it means he really isn't thinking about either of them. When he's reading Malamud he's thinking about Bellow, and when he's reading Bellow he's thinking about Roth. This is the essence of the ratings game: distraction. Children play it all the time. "Is this the biggest bridge in the world?" "No, it's the third biggest." "Oh." They lose all interest in the bridge." # Life and Living # Books - Reading # Critics and Criticism

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Wilfrid Sheed: " People talk about talent as though it were some neutral substance that can be applied to anything. But talent is narrow and only functions with a very few subjects, which it is up to the writer to find." # Writers and Writing # Talent # Friends and Friendship

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Wilfrid Sheed: " What he feared most was the blind spot between us and the future, the space between identities where we could get lost forever." # Fear # Love # Blindness

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Wilfrid Sheed: " The desire not to destroy the palace but to move into it oneself has always been the occupational curse of revolutionaries." # Revolutions and Revolutionaries # Desire # Death and Dying

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