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21 " 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
22 " The annals of human wisdom fall silent when faced with the feral in us. "
― William Giraldi , Hold the Dark
23 " Haunted and bereft, he learned then, were an unforgiving pair. "
24 " Across the open compass behind town, north toward the range, he saw snow-burdened trees bowed like penitents. The morning seemed made of muslin, the sun less than a smudge. The wind came in soughs and shook free a pine scent from trees, then sent snow aloft as mist. "
25 " 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 , Busy Monsters
26 " The dead don’t haunt the living. The living haunt themselves. "
27 " This is the real warning of Nineteen Eighty-Four: The danger comes not from our suppressors but from our ovine willingness to be suppressed. "
28 " This land has hosted horrors most don’t care to count. Wolfsbane. But we are the hemlock, the bane of the wolf. "
29 " If writers' aesthetics are not moral, if they do not comprehend that style is inextricable from morality, then they're just goofing off on their way to being forgotten. "
― William Giraldi , American Audacity: In Defense of Literary Daring
30 " Page upon page, Shelden proceeds with the dauntless pluck of a conspiracy theorist out to show that Elvis killed Kennedy. "
31 " By popular definition, no one was less Orwellian than Eric Blair. "
32 " Like grief, cold is an absence that takes up space. Winter wants the soul and bores into the body to get it. "