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I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old a

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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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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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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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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My dad was a ham, too. He could sell those women anything. Of all his sons, I was the only one he could trust to sell as well as he could. I was proud of that. – Paul Lynde

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Politicians… talk in generalities and lies, and I think theyve caused all our grief. Theyre so awful, theyre really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics. – Paul Lynde

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The golden child may be the oldest one, unless its the youngest. It may be the toughest one, unless its the most sensitive. Its not even necessary that Mom and Dad have the same favorite – and typically they dont. – Jeffrey Kluger

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The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music. – Dennis Wilson

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