William Giraldi Quotes

#1. 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.

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

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

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#4. 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.

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#5. 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?

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#6. I'm a whole lot of God-help-us is what I am.

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#7. Please quiet your strange self lest harm come to you.

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

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#9. I looked up fairness in the dictionary and it was not there.

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#10. By popular definition, no one was less Orwellian than Eric Blair.

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#11. 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.

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#12. Insecure or homicidal: the adjectives don't bother me one bit.

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