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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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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Courage
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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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Fear
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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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A man of courage is also full of faith. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die. – Les Brown

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Courage

There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear. – John Wainwright

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Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. – Winston Churchill

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Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid. – Oscar Wilde

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