"I do believe that our modern English usage……" — Geraldine Brooks
"I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the journals of 18th-century seafarers lately, and even the lowliest press-ganged deck-swabber turns a finer phrase than I do most days."
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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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More Austere Quotes
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Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the…
— Annie Besant
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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
— Ambrose Bierce
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In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none…
— Elinor Wylie
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Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The more you are possession oriented, the less happy you will be. The less happy you are, the farther away…
— Rajneesh
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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
— Ansel Adams
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When I find someone I respect writing about an edgy, nervous wine that dithered in the glass, I cringe. When…
— Kingsley Amis
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Whether deliberately, unconsciously or accidentally, she seems to have composed her own life so that its fitful, rudderless, and self-doubting…
— Carolyn Heilbrun
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I have to say, though, it's a little strange doing both because Durant is very straight and stern and austere.
— Corbin Bernsen
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The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices.…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a…
— Alexander Herzen
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The white blouse can be light and floating, impeccable and austere, sumptuous and all-enveloping, tight and close-fitting. It rises up…
— Gianfranco Ferre
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