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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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'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen.…
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Message? What the hell do you think I am, a bloody postman?
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A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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When I score I don't celebrate, its my job, does a postman celebrate when he delivers post?
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My best songs were written very quickly. Just about as much time as it takes to write it down is about as…
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I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to…
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I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.
— Diane Abbott
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Hope is the letter that never arrives delivered by the postman of my fear.
— Edward Kowalczyk
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You can say that strikers are very much like postmen: they have to get in and out as quick as they can…
— Ian Holloway
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Slowly light strengthens, and the room takes shape. It stands plain as a wardrobe, what we know, Have always known, know that…
— Philip Larkin
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I am one of the new characters in the brand new series of 'Postman Pat.' It has been a joy to do.
— Archie Panjabi
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If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into…
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