"Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth……" — Geraldine Brooks

"Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own."

— Geraldine Brooks

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54 Quotes by Geraldine Brooks

Geraldine Brooks has 54 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I was really interested in how marriages work, how you can, you know, be in love with somebody and spend…
The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known,…
I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.
There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that…
We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one…
My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style.…
September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate…
Both my parents loved words. That was the big deal in our house.
I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and…
Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread…
My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal.
The Sarajevans have a very particular world view - a mordant wit coupled with this unbearable sadness and... truckloads of…

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