The 1930s - a Golden Age for American humor, mainly because everything else was going so badly. The wisecrack was the basic American sentence because there were so many things that could not be said any other way.
It is a fallacy to think that carping is the strongest form of criticism: the important work begins after the artist's mistakes have been pointed out… - Wilfrid Sheed
It is a fallacy to think that carping is the strongest form of criticism: the important work begins after the artist's mistakes have been pointed out…
- Wilfrid Sheed
Even the God of Calvin never judged anyone as harshly as married couples judge each other. - Wilfrid Sheed
Even the God of Calvin never judged anyone as harshly as married couples judge each other.
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. - Wilfrid Sheed
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America. - Wilfrid Sheed
Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.
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… - Wilfrid Sheed
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…
The town is as full as ever of 'characters,' all created by each other. - Wilfrid Sheed
The town is as full as ever of 'characters,' all created by each other.
It's the old case against symbols: if you get them, they seem obvious and artificial, and if you don't, you miss the whole point. - Wilfrid Sheed
It's the old case against symbols: if you get them, they seem obvious and artificial, and if you don't, you miss the whole point.
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 t… - Wilfrid Sheed
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 t…
The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities. - Wilfrid Sheed
The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.
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