"A book is more than the sum of……" — Geraldine Brooks
"A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand."
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54 Quotes by Geraldine Brooks
Geraldine Brooks has 54 quotes on this site.
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I was really interested in how marriages work, how you can, you know, be in love with somebody and spend…
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The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known,…
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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…
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We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one…
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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.…
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September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate…
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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…
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Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread…
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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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Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any…
— William S. Burroughs
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Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.
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Despite not knowing if what he felt from moment to moment would pass or last forever, he entered fully into…
— Diane Ackerman
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And I think this is the real epiphany: the ways in which culture is distributed become profoundly more intriguing as…
— Kenneth Goldsmith
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The book, that stubbornly unelectric artifact of pure typography, possesses resources conducive to the flourishing of the soul. A thoughtful…
— Douglas Groothuis
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Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Wilderness was never a homogenous…
— Aldo Leopold
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Grace, not willpower, is what ultimately empowers us to live loving lives. Creativity, both in what spawns within the artist…
— Ronald Rolheiser
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In Tetrad form, the artifact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of…
— Marshall McLuhan
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The dialectical or ecological approach asserts that creating the world is involved in our every act. It is impossible for…
— Wes Jackson
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SF is an opportunity to have an intense relationship with your own imagination. It's a kind of drive-by poetry, trashy…
— M. John Harrison
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I know this is a major cultural artifact but it's bad for the community.
— Dante Alighieri
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Whoever declares another heretic is himself a devil. Whoever places a relic or artifact above justice, kindness, mercy, or truth…
— Sheri S. Tepper
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