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Geraldine Brooks Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war Picture Quote #1

Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own Picture Quote #1

Both my parents loved words. That was the big deal in our house Picture Quote #1

Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves Picture Quote #1

If there is one class of person I have never quite trusted, it is a man who knows no doubt Picture Quote #1

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And so, as generally happens, those who have most give least, and those with less somehow make shrift to share Picture Quote #1

If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude Picture Quote #1

She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she closed them Picture Quote #1

I borrowed his brightness and used it to see my way, and then gradually, from the habit of looking at the world as he illuminated it, the light in my own mind rekindled Picture Quote #1

To know a man’s library is, in some measure, to know a man’s mind Picture Quote #1

We were too intelligent, too cynical for war. Of course, you don’t have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid, primitive death Picture Quote #1

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I was really interested in how marriages work, how you can, you know, be in love with somebody and spend many years with your lives intertwined, but in the end another soul can be fundamentally unknowable. And I think that the stress of war, when one party goes away and the other has to deal at home, is a really testing time in a lot of marriages Picture Quote #1

The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure Picture Quote #1

A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand Picture Quote #1

You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going Picture Quote #1

There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us Picture Quote #1

We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures Picture Quote #1

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September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage Picture Quote #1

I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it’s words on the page and therefore it is something to work with Picture Quote #1

My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I’m more your paragraph kind of gal Picture Quote #1

And one of the things that I learned was you can’t generalise at all about a woman in a veil. You can’t think you know her story, because she will confound you over and over again. She may be an engineer or a diplomat or a doctor. Or she may be an unbelievable babe with bleached hair down to her waist Picture Quote #1

Certainly I’m still mining my experiences as a journalist. I think it’s no coincidence that all three of my novels basically are about how people act in a time of catastrophe. Do they go to their best self or their worst self? Picture Quote #1

For most people, chemotherapy is no longer the chamber of horrors we often conceive it to be. Yes, it is an ordeal for some people, but it wasn’t for me, nor for most of the patients I got to know during my four months of periodic visits to the chemo suite Picture Quote #1

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I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age, when our emerging sexuality is our central preoccupation, the idea of disfigurement of a breast is particularly horrifying Picture Quote #1

Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food on the table, making sure everybody’s socks match, the soccer gear is ready. I admire idealists, but they’re usually enabled by someone who holds the tether on their balloon, who pays the bills and sweeps up after them Picture Quote #1

While I love to read contemporary fiction, I’m not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it’s because the former journalist in me is too inhibited by the press of reality; when I think about writing of my own time I always think about nonfiction narratives. Or perhaps it’s just that I find the present too confounding Picture Quote #1

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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. I sort of fell out of the tribe over women’s rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old (Geraldine Brooks Quotes) I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war (Geraldine Brooks Quotes) Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own (Geraldine Brooks Quotes) Both my parents loved words. That was the big deal in our house (Geraldine Brooks Quotes) Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves (Geraldine Brooks Quotes) If there is one class of person I have never quite trusted, it is a man who knows no doubt (Geraldine Brooks Quotes) And so, as generally happens, those who have most give least, and those with less somehow make shrift to share (Geraldine Brooks Quotes) If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude (Geraldine Brooks Quotes) She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she closed them (Geraldine Brooks Quotes) I borrowed his brightness and used it to see my way, and then gradually, from the habit of looking at the world as he illuminated it, the light in my own mind rekindled (Geraldine Brooks Quotes) To know a man’s library is, in some measure, to know a man’s mind (Geraldine Brooks Quotes) We were too intelligent, too cynical for war. Of course, you don’t have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid, primitive death (Geraldine Brooks Quotes) I was really interested in how marriages work, how you can, you know, be in love with somebody and spend many years with your lives intertwined, but in the end another soul can be fundamentally unknowable. And I think that the stress of war, when one party goes away and the other has to deal at home, is a really testing time in a lot of marriages (Geraldine Brooks Quotes) The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure (Geraldine Brooks Quotes) A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand (Geraldine Brooks Quotes) You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going (Geraldine Brooks Quotes) There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us (Geraldine Brooks Quotes) We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures (Geraldine Brooks Quotes) September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage (Geraldine Brooks Quotes) I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it’s words on the page and therefore it is something to work with (Geraldine Brooks Quotes) My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I’m more your paragraph kind of gal (Geraldine Brooks Quotes) And one of the things that I learned was you can’t generalise at all about a woman in a veil. You can’t think you know her story, because she will confound you over and over again. She may be an engineer or a diplomat or a doctor. Or she may be an unbelievable babe with bleached hair down to her waist (Geraldine Brooks Quotes) Certainly I’m still mining my experiences as a journalist. I think it’s no coincidence that all three of my novels basically are about how people act in a time of catastrophe. Do they go to their best self or their worst self? (Geraldine Brooks Quotes) For most people, chemotherapy is no longer the chamber of horrors we often conceive it to be. Yes, it is an ordeal for some people, but it wasn’t for me, nor for most of the patients I got to know during my four months of periodic visits to the chemo suite (Geraldine Brooks Quotes) I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age, when our emerging sexuality is our central preoccupation, the idea of disfigurement of a breast is particularly horrifying (Geraldine Brooks Quotes) Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food on the table, making sure everybody’s socks match, the soccer gear is ready. I admire idealists, but they’re usually enabled by someone who holds the tether on their balloon, who pays the bills and sweeps up after them (Geraldine Brooks Quotes) While I love to read contemporary fiction, I’m not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it’s because the former journalist in me is too inhibited by the press of reality; when I think about writing of my own time I always think about nonfiction narratives. Or perhaps it’s just that I find the present too confounding (Geraldine Brooks Quotes)

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