Wilfrid Sheed
Wilfrid Sheed
Wilfrid John Joseph Sheedwas an English-born American novelist and essayist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 December 1930
Wilfrid Sheed quotes about
short-life america unnecessary
Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.
editors years people
Censors will try to censor a little bit more each year (because, like editors and other officious people, censors don't feel they are getting anywhere unless they are up and doing).
sunshine weather made
The actual Irish weather report is really a recording made in 1922, which no one has had occasion to change. "Scattered showers, periods of sunshine."
generations
Every writer is a writer of the generation before.
father land catholic
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.
marriage couple judging
Even the God of Calvin never judged anyone as harshly as married couples judge each other.