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Wilfrid Sheed
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Wilfrid Sheed
Age: 80 †
Born: 1930
Born: December 27
Died: 2011
Died: January 19
Novelist
London
England
Wilfrid John Joseph Sheed
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Beware the fictionist writing his own life. Even candor becomes a strategy.
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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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I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.
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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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Books about suicide make lousy gifts.
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Every writer is a writer of the generation before.
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The worse we treat people in this country, the more delicately we talk about them.
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Whether or not Big Brother is watching us, we certainly have to watch him, which may be even worse.
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If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
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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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Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.
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The only reason I didn't kill myself after I read the reviews of my first book was because we have two rivers in New York and I couldn't decide which one to jumo into.
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The town is as full as ever of 'characters,' all created by each other.
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Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test.
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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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The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.
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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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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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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?
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It is possible that the malice of writers has been overrated (by myself among others). Reading their ruminations on their craft, one sees why this writer could not possibly like that one, would indeed consider him a menace. Literature is a battleground of conflicting faiths, and nobler passions than envy are involved.
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