Wilfrid Sheed
Wilfrid Sheed
Wilfrid John Joseph Sheedwas an English-born American novelist and essayist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 December 1930
short-life america unnecessary
Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.
firsts worthy approach
As you approach the presidency, no one seems worthy of it, since it wasn't designed for a human in the first place.
age golden way
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.
writing strategy candor
Beware the fictionist writing his own life. Even candor becomes a strategy.
doe too-late decadence
How does one make a movie about decadence these days? Now that we're allowed to do it, it's too late.
missing cases obvious
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.
maturity males exhausted
The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.
intelligent speak-english speak
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
country people treats
The worse we treat people in this country, the more delicately we talk about them.