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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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When I write a word in English, a simple one, such as, say, 'chief,' I have unwittingly ushered a querulous horde into…
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Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The tea party saved the Republican Party. In a broad sense, the tea party rescued it from being the fat, unhappy, querulous…
— Peggy Noonan
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One of the more serious temptations which stifles boldness and zeal is a defeatism, which turns us into querulous and disillusioned pessimists,…
— Pope Francis
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While husbands and lovers in the stories [of the 14th century] are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are…
— Barbara Tuchman
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All successful newpapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job…
— H. L. Mencken
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I have no business to feel downcast or querulous merely because when so much as been given me I have not had…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness,…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an…
— William Petty
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Politics is the process of getting along with the querulous, the garrulous and the congenitally unlovable.
— Marilyn Moats Kennedy
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