"I borrowed his brightness and used it to……" — Geraldine Brooks
"I borrowed his brightness and used it to see my way, and then gradually, from the habit of looking at the world as he illuminated it, the light in my own mind rekindled."
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Geraldine Brooks
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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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I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how…
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
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You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.
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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole…
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I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then -…
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Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our…
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It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the…
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Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral parasite, living his life based on borrowed…
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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation…
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To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.
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