“For now, I'm supposing that all movements are equal, which they're not, except in this respect: that none of them gives a damn about artists beyond their immediate utility. Good movements will use a writer just as ruthlessly as bad ones; since they all fancy they have better things to do than worry about one man's artistic survival.”

—  Wilfrid Sheed

"On Keeping Closets Closed" (1973), p. 76
The Good Word & Other Words (1978)

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