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Geraldine Brooks has 54 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I was really interested in how marriages work, how you can, you know, be in love with somebody and spend many years…
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The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that…
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I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.
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Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.
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There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites…
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We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.
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My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort…
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September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent…
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Both my parents loved words. That was the big deal in our house.
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I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it…
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Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the…
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My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal.
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It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.
— Ray Bradbury
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Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children,…
— Richard Armour
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Shut the door, they're coming through the window, shut the window, they're coming through the door," are the words to an old…
— Ray Bradbury
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Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly…
— Alberto Manguel
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The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it…
— Daniel Handler
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Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.
— Geraldine Brooks
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I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt; I am…
— Christopher Marlowe
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The Internet has made book burning impossible and redundant at the same time.
— John Alejandro King
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