Guy Vanderhaeghe Quotes

#1. Any Canadian looking in the bathroom mirror is sure to recognize one of Guy Vanderhaeghe's people. Man Descending is the startling debut of an excellent writer.

Rudy Wiebe

#2. She'd whisper to me to take my tiny piece of happiness, hold its honey in my mouth until it melts away.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

#3. Hope resides in the future, while perspective and wisdom are almost always found by looking to the past.

Greg Mortenson

#4. If you like old cars detective, eastern North Carolina is perfect for you" he said smoothing his tie. "We have oodles of vintage vehicles around here, don't we Colonel? In fact I like to think of them as one of poverty's little perks.

Sheila Turnage

#5. Most of those characters with all the answers couldn't poor piss out of a rubber boot if they read the instructions printed on the sole.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

#6. A man descending is propelled by inertia; the only initiative left him is whether or not he decides to enjoy the passing scene.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

#7. Our first presupposition must be that in nature nothing acts on, or is acted on by, any other thing at random, nor may anything come from anything else, unless we mean that it does so in virtue of a concomitant attribute.

Aristotle.

#8. Eve and the apple was the first great step in experimental science.

James Bridie

#9. The fact remains, I was never meant to sell china. Only truly saintly men are cut out for that; the sort of men who trudge the roads to Benares, or reside on the icy hilltops speculating on infinity. It takes more faith than I can summon.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

#10. As long as I can remember I have been carelessly casting myself uninvited into novels where no self-respecting novelist would have me. This literary gate-crashing of mine must be a sign of a wretched thirsting after immortality.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

#11. Not to do as the child wishes would be wrong because he is born on a path, and it would be evil, a crime against nature to make him deny his spirit.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

#12. The Wars is a great book, rich in its images, its language, its construction, and, ultimately, its conception.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

#13. The angel within me thrives on the devil within me.

Kedar Joshi

#14. Sometimes I feel entirely disassociated from what I do. It's a malady of the modern age.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

#15. I've always found that a really lively argument depends on the ignorance of the combatants.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

#16. It might be high summer all about but inside me everything is fall. The lonesomeness of a sad, slow closing of days, knowing frost is nigh and wind needling through the cabin chinks is just around the bend. That's me, right now.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

#17. Do not follow your present course. It is a dead end. The dead end of the perfect English gentleman.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

#18. Embrace one another with courage. Search each other's hearts for hidden suffering and never flee what you discover! That's the ticket!

Guy Vanderhaeghe

#19. He had the neurotic's partial vision of life, and a sense of the absurdity which adheres to all effort when observed in the light of a long enough perspective. This had never made him popular.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

#20. One of the accidental joys of my writing life has been that I've had some lovely, surprisingly good fortune with readers, and I've brought readers to my dad's work. I can't tell you the joy that gives me. Because my father's work was masterful.

Andre Dubus III

#21. History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

#22. I remember you organized the big laundry party and all of our friends took their dirty clothes to the laundromat and drank wine out of a wineskin until the manager threw us out because you kept yelling that there ought to be a prize given to the owner of the biggest pair of boxer shorts.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

#23. The truth is for those that seek it!

Gayle Nix Jackson