“As you approach the presidency, no one seems worthy of it, since it wasn't designed for a human in the first place.”

— Wilfrid Sheed

"Miami 1972" (1972), p. 283
The Good Word & Other Words (1978)

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English-American novelist and essayist 1930–2011

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