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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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Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food…
— Geraldine Brooks
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A bird on a tether, no matter how long the rope, can always be pulled back.
— Ronald Reagan
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Nae man can tether time nor tide.
— John Bunyan
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Homo sapiens Yuck You contemporary fools laugh at religious and political lies spewed by sociopaths, lies that tether you forever to poverty…
— Unknown Author
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And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.
— Umberto Guidoni
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In order to be not bound by the tether of time, we must have a relationship with the timeless.
— Deepak Chopra
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I have never in my life walked with a harness. The weight of the tether, makes it feel like I'm dragging an…
— Nik Wallenda
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I really enjoy playing that everyman part because that part is us, the audience. And you need somebody inside a comedy to…
— Jason Bateman
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In fierce March weather White waves break tether, And whirled together At either hand, Like weeds uplifted, The tree-trunks rifted In spars…
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Free yourself from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But is not that, too, a form of slavery?…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I love…
— Libba Bray
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Tether even a roasted chicken.
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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