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Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Satu

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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My mothers 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 womens rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old. – Geraldine Brooks

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I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader. – 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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One of the accidental joys of my writing life has been that Ive had some lovely, surprisingly good fortune with readers, and Ive brought readers to my dads work. I cant tell you the joy that gives me. Because my fathers work was masterful. – Andre Dubus III

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My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life. I like to think hed be proud of me and my sister and brothers, because Im sure proud of him and of where I come from, Janesville, Wisconsin. – Paul Ryan

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My dad and mom believed that you do what you have to do in private and dont make a big deal out of it. Just try to help people as much as you can. – Harry Connick, Jr.

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Child-rearing is my main interest now. Im a hands-on father. – Sean Penn

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Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals but most people stuff themselves like cattle. – Heraclitus

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You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. – John Morley

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