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I'm a praying atheist. When I hear an ambulance siren, I ask for a blessing for those people in trouble, knowing that no one's listening. I think it's just a habit of mindfulness.

~Geraldine Brooks

Topics: Ambulance Ask Atheist Blessing Habit Hear Just Knowing Listening Mindfulness People Praying Siren Think Those Trouble I Think

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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

Topics: Courage Demonstrate Extent Gone Heroism Lives Might Never Ordinary Ordinary People People Revealed September Through Who

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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

Topics: Always Communal Courage Divides Few Greater Madness Say Stand Stand Up Than Times Unites Up Us Who

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Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost any circumstances- by candle light, in longhand, in African villages where there was no power, under shelling in Kurdistan.

~Geraldine Brooks

Topics: About African Almost Any Any Circumstances Attempting Because Before Candle Circumstances First Learned Light Longhand Newspaper Novel Power Reporter Villages Where Worked Write Years

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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

Topics: As Far As Attracts Build Factual Far Fiction Fills Find Historical Historical Fiction Imagination Known Letting Me Most Never Out Record Structure Sure Taking Then Thing Things Those Using

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One thing I believe completely is that the human heart remains the human heart, no matter how our material circumstances change as we move together through time.

~Geraldine Brooks

Topics: Believe Change Circumstances Heart How Human Human Heart Material Matter Move One Thing Our Remains Thing Through Time Together I Believe

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We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.

~Geraldine Brooks

Topics: Animal Ape Dogs Elephants Only

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Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.

~Geraldine Brooks

Topics: Any Certainty Moral Other Own People Than Truth

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Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and ice shards piercing hearts. Even the New Testament climaxes with an act of unspeakable torture. Might as well just read to our kids from the Amnesty Annual Report and be done with it.

~Geraldine Brooks

Topics: Act Amnesty Annual Bloody Burning Children Classics Done Even Feet Full Hearts Ice Just Kids Might New New Testament Our Piercing Read Report Testament Torture Unspeakable Well Wolves Young Young Children

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I think I'm still chewing on my years as a foreign correspondent. I found myself covering catastrophes - war, uprising, famine, refugee crises - and witnessing how people were affected by dire situations. When I find a story from the past, I bring some of those lessons to bear on the narrative.

~Geraldine Brooks

Topics: Affected Bear Bring Chewing Correspondent Covering Crises Dire Famine Find Foreign Found How Lessons Myself Narrative Past People Refugee Situations Some Still Story Think Those Uprising War Were Witnessing Years I Think

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Journalist

Born: September 14th, 1955

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