Guy Vanderhaeghe

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

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

“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

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

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

“Sometimes I feel entirely disassociated form what I do. It's a malady of the modern age.”

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

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

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

“They teach us that in school, matters of principle. I swear it's a plot to get us all slaughtered the day they…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

“The fact remains, I was never meant to sell china. Only truly saintly men are cut out for that; the sort of…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

“As long as I can remember I have been carelessly casting myself uninvited into novels where no self-respecting novelist would have me.…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

“News of the disaster at Little Bighorn reached the Eastern Seaboard shortly after July 4, and not just any ordinary July 4…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

“He had the neurotic's partial vision of life, and a sense of the absurdity which adheres to all effort when observed in…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

“It might be high summer all about but inside me everything is fall. The lonesomeness of a sad, slow closing of days,…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

“Not to do as the child wishes would be wrong because he is born on a path, and it would be evil,…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

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

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

“Of course, I could holler Religious Persecution. Not that it would do any good. But it's something I happen to know quite…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

“His life, like every other life, could be graphed: an ascent that rises to a peak, pauses at a particular node, and…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

“He said there were two kinds of bitterness: one that takes away the appetite and one that stimulates it. Pepper, he said,…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

“But there was also the shame of a man who suddenly discovers that all his lies were transparent, and everything he thought…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

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

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

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

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

“...my longing was for Russia...Not Soviet Russia. But nineteenth-century Russia, the Russia of Dostoevsky's saintly prostitutes and Alyosha; of Tolstoy's Pierre; and…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

“That's the wonderful thing about one's thirties...Almost anything can surface. Old radical friends - and you and I can think of a…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

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

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

“This is the life I lead by day. But on a deeper level of consciousness I lead a different life. There, an…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

“It is in the face of all this visual chaos, so opposed to order and simplicity, that I suddenly, perhaps a little…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

“Most of those characters with all the answers couldn't poor piss out of a rubber boot if they read the instructions printed…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe