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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

Other quotes by Geraldine Brooks

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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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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Geraldine Brooks
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Courage
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We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death. – Robert Green Ingersoll

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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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Courage

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. – Mark Twain

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Courage

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them. – Samuel Butler

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Books

I loved White Christmas for the music aspect. I was into musical theater. – Lana Parrilla

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Christmas

Of course I believe in aliens. I think its very egocentric to think that theres nothing else with intelligence in the whole universe. – Lizzie Brochere

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Intelligence

I am living proof that the American dream still exists. It is still alive and well. There is only one trick, you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and work very, very hard. – Paula Deen

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work