Quote by Geraldine Brooks
There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness a

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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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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Faith
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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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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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Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms. – H.G. Bohn

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Courage

Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, were going to lose millions of people. And the politicians knew how to solve it, they just didnt have the courage to solve it they were going to put coal dust on the Arctic. – Don Young

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Courage

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage. – Michel de Montaigne

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Courage

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information. – Peter Ustinov

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Courage

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If you wait, all that happens is that you get older. – Larry McMurtry, Some Can Whistle

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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism. – Karl Marx

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