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.
~ Wilfrid Sheed
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Whether or not Big Brother is watching us, we certainly have to watch him, which may be even worse.
~ Wilfrid Sheed
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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?
~ Wilfrid Sheed
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Saloons provide moments of genuine ecstasy — but only if your soul is at peace and the rest of your life bears contemplating. Otherwise, they are palaces of misery.
~ Wilfrid Sheed
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Literature is a battleground of conflicting faiths, and nobler passions than envy are involved.
~ Wilfrid Sheed
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Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.
~ Wilfrid Sheed
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Chicago 1968 taught one how close any civilized country is to berserkness at all times; also how terrorism, even silly terrorism, strengthens the cops more than anyone.
~ Wilfrid Sheed
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In modern American style, his job, not his past, defined him.
~ Wilfrid Sheed
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