Wilfrid Sheed: Quotes about life

Wilfrid Sheed was English-American novelist and essayist. Explore interesting quotes on life.
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“Childhood lays itself out, like a novel, he suggests, complete with central observer, fixed characters, and linear plot. Later, life disperses itself into anecdotes. At twenty-one, it no longer strictly matters whether the author went first to Ireland and then to Spain, or Spain first. And after thirty, he could stitch the pages in backward for all we care.”

Wilfrid Sheed

"V. S. Pritchett: Midnight Oil," p. 224
The Good Word & Other Words (1978)

Life , Childhood

“That is the best story he could find in his life, never mind if it's the truest: an artist's duty is always to tell the best story.”

Wilfrid Sheed

"V. S. Pritchett: Midnight Oil," p. 227
The Good Word & Other Words (1978)

Life

“Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.”

Wilfrid Sheed

"Now That Men Can Cry..." (1977), p. 290
The Good Word & Other Words (1978)

Life

“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

"Now That Men Can Cry...," p. 299
The Good Word & Other Words (1978)

Life , Peace , Soul

“Of course, 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

"The Aesthetics of Politics," p. 156
Essays in Disguise (1990)

Life , History , Thinking

“Beware the fictionist writing his own life. Even candor becomes a strategy.”

Wilfrid Sheed

"V. S. Pritchett: Midnight Oil" (1972), p. 223
The Good Word & Other Words (1978)

Life