"My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics -……" — Geraldine Brooks
"My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over women's rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old."
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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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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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The Sarajevans have a very particular world view - a mordant wit coupled with this unbearable sadness and... truckloads of…
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More Baroque Quotes
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Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food…
— Mario Batali
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The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism.
— Kevin McCloud
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Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese…
— Carlo Petrini
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But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained as in the case of pleasure…
— Immanuel Kant
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I deliberately disregarded the right angle and rationalist architecture designed with ruler and square to boldly enter the world of…
— Oscar Niemeyer
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I was attracted by the curve — the liberated, sensual curve suggested by the possibilities of new technology yet so…
— Oscar Niemeyer
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Borne out of this, starting around the 17th Century was the Baroque era. It is my view that it is…
— Harry Seidler
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While the Baroque rules of Chess could only have been created by humans, the rules of Go are so elegant,…
— Emanuel Lasker
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Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.
— Joan Armatrading
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I would define the baroque as that style that deliberately exhausts (or tries to exhaust) its own possibilities, and that…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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The Humbling is not vintage Roth, despite its compelling premise. The bizarre series of episodes -- mostly sexual encounters with…
— Philip Hensher
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I think Ive learned more about Baroque music than any other genre.
— Joyce DiDonato
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