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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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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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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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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What I love most about animation is, its a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination. – Jeffrey Katzenberg

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What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, Oh, what this really is is so-and-so, reducing it to a simple formula. – Doris Lessing

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I am now and have always been a stranger to the realm of practical matters. – Anton Chekhov

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Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels. – Luigi Pirandello

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Even though you cant expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. Thats morality, thats religion. Thats art. Thats life. – Phil Ochs

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I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms. – Giacomo Casanova

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws. – Nicolas Chamfort

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