"To know a man's library is, in some……" — Geraldine Brooks
"To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind."
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54 Quotes by Geraldine Brooks
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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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