"'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at……" — Geraldine Brooks
"'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen. For a second, I'm 10 years old again, waiting for the postman's whistle to slice the stillness of an Australian afternoon."
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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 Afternoon Quotes
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We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part…
— Anthony Bourdain
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Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think…
— Terry Brooks
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I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the…
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.
— Anthony Burgess
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I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging…
— David Byrne
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We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
— Jimmy Carter
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France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.
— Barbara Cartland
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On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done,…
— Maya Angelou
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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the…
— Hank Aaron
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No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled…
— Ellen Glasgow
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