Wilfrid Sheed Quotes - Page 2

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• The 1930s - a Golden Age for American humor, mainly because everything else was going so badly. The wisecrack was the basic American sentence because there were so many things that could not be said any other way.

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  Age, Golden, Way

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

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• Every writer is a writer of the generation before.

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  Generations

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• Beware the fictionist writing his own life. Even candor becomes a strategy.

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  Writing, Strategy, Candor

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

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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.

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  Doe, Too Late, Decadence

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

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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 was the land of Father Says.

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  Father, Land, Catholic

  Wilfrid sheed (1986). “FRANK MAISIE”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• Baseball fans are pedants, there is no other kind.

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  Baseball, Fans, Pedants

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• Scott Fitzgerald is a sound you like to hear at certain times of the day, say at four in the afternoon and again late at night, and at other times it makes you slightly sick.

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  Night, Sick, Scott Fitzgerald

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

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• Mushy reviews are a breach of faith

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  Reviews, Breach

  Wilfrid Sheed (1990). “Essays in Disguise”, Alfred A. Knopf

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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 would never dominate their wives.

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  Home, Wife, Office

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

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• 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.

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  People, Substance, Talent

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

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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 "Arise, sir Knight" deserves a life sentence in Camelot.

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  Thinking, Knights, Voice

  "Essays in Disguise" by Wilfrid Sheed, Knopf, (p. 156), 1990.

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• As you approach the presidency, no one seems worthy of it, since it wasn't designed for a human in the first place.

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  Firsts, Worthy, Approach

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

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