Wilfrid Sheed (1930–2011) English-American novelist and essayist
"A. Alvarez: The Savage God" (1972), p. 69
The Good Word & Other Words (1978)
“Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again”
— Jane Austen, book Northanger Abbey
Source: Northanger Abbey
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