5 Wilfrid Sheed Quotes on Identity

Wilfrid Sheed quotes on identity

5. 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.

8. What he feared most was the blind spot between us and the future, the space between identities where we could get lost forever.

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.

22. In modern American style, his job, not his past, defined him.

25. His interviewing self is, or was, an extra person, like the Holy Ghost, generated by self-contemplation.