William Giraldi Quotes & Sayings

We know by intuition and study that great books approach a condition both above and below human - what Lesser means by "grandeur and intimacy" - and our job is to place ourselves somewhere on the continuum between those shifting poles, to welcome a gravid agitation or be willing to undergo some form of personal torsion; to have our personhood both threatened and amplified. — William Giraldi

I'm a whole lot of God-help-us is what I am. — William Giraldi

Be sweet to one another. Stay in this beauty and brawl against the world's power of pulling apart. Recall Old Testament terminology: covenant, sacred, sacrifice. And mind always that Adam wasn't a schlep fruitily duped by Eve. He turned his back on God because he knew that a paradise without her was no paradise at all. — William Giraldi

For a time I hovered in that peaceful dreamland where nothing at all works properly but everything is okay. — William Giraldi

I looked up fairness in the dictionary and it was not there. — William Giraldi

Stunned by love and some would say stupid from too much sex, I decided I had to drive down south to kill a man. — William Giraldi

By popular definition, no one was less Orwellian than Eric Blair. — William Giraldi

Most writers deserve the reputation posterity has bestowed upon them: You can't for long conceal the toxic spots on your character - Philip Larkin is Exhibit A - nor can you conceal your dignity, your humanism, your regard for veracity and freedom. — William Giraldi

But Maine is a special place: there's something about untold acres of natural beauty in concert with an underachieving public school system that leads to deviations from the customary and commonsensical. — William Giraldi

Please quiet your strange self lest harm come to you. — William Giraldi

Of course George Orwell was not a saint - he could be unfaithful to his wife and suspicious of democracy, for starters - and it's a good thing, too, because saints are always hard to take seriously. — William Giraldi

It's shameful that today's mouthy political expositors aren't better versed in Orwell. Can you imagine a theatre director who hasn't studied Shakespeare? — William Giraldi

This is the real warning of Nineteen Eighty-Four: The danger comes not from our suppressors but from our ovine willingness to be suppressed. — William Giraldi

Insecure or homicidal: the adjectives don't bother me one bit. — William Giraldi