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 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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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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Courage
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Success is never final, failure is never fatal. Its courage that counts. – John Wooden

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Courage

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity. – Horace

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Courage

Courage is a kind of salvation. – Plato

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Courage

Physical courage is a great test. – Oriana Fallaci

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Courage

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A zebra does not change its spots. – Al Gore

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Change

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor’s. – Richard Whately

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Community

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do todays job with yesterdays tools and yesterdays concepts. – Marshall McLuhan

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Age

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells. – J. Paul Getty