Quote by Geraldine Brooks
You cant write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a f

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 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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Theres just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you cant know it all, and thats where imagination can work. – Geraldine Brooks

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Imagination
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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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People dont talk about religion a lot in Hollywood because its not an incredibly safe place to do it. – Zachary Levi

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The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart. – Anita Diament

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If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were. – Denise Mina

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More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion. – Alexander Chase

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Fame — the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name. – Rainer Maria Rilke

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It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world. – George Dennison Prentice

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