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September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might

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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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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Religion
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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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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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Imagination
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As the first Hispanic female governor in history, little girls often come up to me in the grocery store or the mall. They look and point, and when they get the courage, they ask Are you Susana? and they run up and give me a hug. – Susana Martinez

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Courage

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage. – Hosea Ballou

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Courage

The only reason Im in Hollywood is that I dont have the moral courage to refuse the money. – Marlon Brando

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Intuition is a faculty of the soul, just as reliable as that of Reason… – R.H. Brown, “It Is All Clairvoyance!” in The Spiritual Magazine, October 1868

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Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. – Lewis Mumford

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Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove. – P.G. Wodehouse

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Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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