Wilfrid Sheed - Life Quotes

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Suicide itself is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets.

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Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.

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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.

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

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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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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.

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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.

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