"When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far……" — Geraldine Brooks
"When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to stop. You can't go. You can't suppose. You can't imagine. And I think there's something in human nature that wants to finish the story."
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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 Ethically Quotes
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Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools…
— Carl Sagan
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One has a feeling that one has a kind of home in this timeless community of human beings that strive…
— Albert Einstein
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Love is the most ethically consistent experience, because selfishness and altruism no longer seem opposed or in conflict.
— Peter Breggin
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We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down…
— Thomas Berry
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The practice of conservation must spring from a conviction of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what…
— Aldo Leopold
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It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics…
— Nathaniel Borenstein
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A minimal level of sportsman ethics afield is mandated by written law. Beyond that, say, when an action is legal…
— David Petersen
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We take these animals and completely violate who they are. We use them, abuse them, and deprive them all their…
— River Phoenix
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In fact, it’s the very impersonality of impersonal knowledge that renders such knowledge the most ethically potent of all.
— Rebecca Goldstein
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Right-wing propagandists like Limbaugh and Coulter are essentially entertainers, entertainers who stimulate prejudice, selfishness and meanness the way a comedian…
— Unknown Author
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The maker of kitsch does not create inferior art, he is not an incompetent or a bungler, he cannot be…
— Hermann Broch
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The major wars that the U.S. became involved in are all ethically defensible.
— Liu Xiaobo
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