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Quote by Geraldine Brooks
Theres just so many great stories in the past that you can know a

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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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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Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books. – Geraldine Brooks

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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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The strongest nation on earth is your imagi-nation. – Matt Furey

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To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted. – George Kneller

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Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, Just watch! – Bill Bradley

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Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination. – Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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