For now, I'm supposing that all movements are equal, which they're not, except in this respect: that none of them gives a… — Wilfrid Sheed Art Copy Share Image
I myself have not met a self-confessed liberal since the late fifties (and even then it was a tacky thing to admit,… — Wilfrid Sheed Announcing Copy Share Image
For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for… — Wilfrid Sheed Catholic Copy Share Image
I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find. — Wilfrid Sheed Consolation Copy Share Image
It is possible that the malice of writers has been overrated (by myself among others). Reading their ruminations on their craft, one… — Wilfrid Sheed Battleground Copy Share Image
As things now stand, the office is a slightly meaner battleground than the home. Male bosses seem to dominate their women underlings… — Wilfrid Sheed Battleground Copy Share Image
Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their… — Wilfrid Sheed Finals Copy Share Image
The actual Irish weather report is really a recording made in 1922, which no one has had occasion to change. "Scattered showers,… — Wilfrid Sheed Made Copy Share Image
The town is as full as ever of 'characters,' all created by each other. — Wilfrid Sheed Character Copy Share Image
You noodle around with tempo and sound until you get the perfect fit for that particular song, and then, so long as… — Wilfrid Sheed Fit Copy Share Image
Mr Michener, as timeless as a stack of National Geographics, is the ultimate Summer Writer. Just as one goes back to the… — Wilfrid Sheed Cottages Copy Share Image
Of course, history is only a muddle of facts and a fuddle of professors, and anyone who thinks it is one clear… — Wilfrid Sheed Arise Copy Share Image
How does one make a movie about decadence these days? Now that we're allowed to do it, it's too late. — Wilfrid Sheed Decadence Copy Share Image
Scott Fitzgerald is a sound you like to hear at certain times of the day, say at four in the afternoon and… — Wilfrid Sheed Afternoon Copy Share Image
Whether or not Big Brother is watching us, we certainly have to watch him, which may be even worse. — Wilfrid Sheed Bigs Copy Share Image
The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities. — Wilfrid Sheed Exhausted Copy Share Image
Beware the fictionist writing his own life. Even candor becomes a strategy. — Wilfrid Sheed Candor Copy Share Image
Censors will try to censor a little bit more each year (because, like editors and other officious people, censors don't feel they… — Wilfrid Sheed Bits Copy Share Image
The worse we treat people in this country, the more delicately we talk about them. — Wilfrid Sheed Country Copy Share Image
The only reason I didn't kill myself after I read the reviews of my first book was because we have two rivers… — Wilfrid Sheed Book Copy Share Image
