Quote by Geraldine Brooks
The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer

The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a phone to call my husband, and I could almost see the fear coming toward me like a big, black shadow. – Geraldine Brooks

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You cant write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. Im very interested in what religion does to us – its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence. – Geraldine Brooks

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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

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Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books. – Geraldine Brooks

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Fear and pain and suffering is not OK for any being to feel intentionally at the hands of us. – Leona Lewis

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. – Edmund Burke

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Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion. – Thomas Hobbes

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I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what were lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and its worse than fear – its active disengagement. – Ken Burns

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By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry. – Jack Dempsey

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