Mr Michener, as timeless as a stack of 'National Geographics,' is the ultimate Summer Writer. Just as one goes back to the cottage in Maine, so one goes back to one's Michener.
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.
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.
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…
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.
Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America. - Wilfrid Sheed
Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.
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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