4 Wilfrid Sheed Quotes on Culture

Wilfrid Sheed quotes on culture

15. I myself have not met a self-confessed liberal since the late fifties (and even then it was a tacky thing to admit, like coming from the middle class or the Middle West, those two gloomy seedbeds of talent), yet hardly a day passes that I don't read another attack on the 'typical liberal' - as it might be announcing a pest of dinosaurs or a plague of unicorns.

24. How does one make a movie about decadence these days? Now that we're allowed to do it, it's too late.

36. Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.

43. Through the burgeoning university network, it was suddenly possible to think of oneself as a national poet, even if the nation turned out to consist entirely of English departments.