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Carmichael was, like many Americans, a divided soul, part nomad and part homebody, who seemed a little bit at home everywhere, but was probably more so someplace else, if he could just find it.
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The rational man may talk a good game about suicide, but reason must give way to obsession and finally squalor before he can actually do it.
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The odds on any intelligent person having an unhappy childhood are better than fair, and the odds on a sad ending are practically off the board.
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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.
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A deadly streak of passivity of a kind that sometimes goes with perfectionism.
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Wilfrid Sheed
Born:
December 27, 1930
Died:
January 19, 2011
(aged 80)
Bio:
Wilfrid John Joseph Sheed was an English-born American novelist and essayist.
Known for:
In Love With Daylight (1995)
Max Jamison (1970)
Frank and Maisie (1985)
My Life as a Fan (1993)
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