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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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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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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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All is amiss. Love is dying, faiths defying, hearts denying. – Richard Barnfield

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Were very open and outspoken about our faith and our beliefs. We also talk about our doubts, our moments of insecurities. We talk about it all day, how were inspired by God. We recognize little miracles every day, and thats how were raising our daughter. – Boris Kodjoe

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Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair. – William Shakespeare

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You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine. – Tertullian

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Unless we change direction, we are likely to end up where we are going. – Author Unknown

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