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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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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

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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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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

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Its one thing to be religious, but its another thing to make religion your policy. – Madeleine Albright

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I subscribe to no religion. But I believe that in the creation of art, there can be moments of God. – Andrea Riseborough

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Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun. – Ziggy Marley

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The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action. – Albert Einstein

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