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I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.

~Geraldine Brooks

Topics: Common Honour Sacrifices Soldier Think War Without You I Think

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I swim in a sea of words. They flow around me and through me and, by a process that is not fully clear to me, some delicate hidden membrane draws forth the stuff that is the necessary condition of my life.

~Geraldine Brooks

Topics: Around Clear Condition Delicate Draws Flow Forth Fully Hidden Life Me My Life Necessary Process Sea Some Stuff Swim Through Words

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It is my great good luck the words I use are English words, which means I live in a very old nation of open borders; a rich, deep, multi-layered, promiscuous universe, infused with Latin, German, French, Greek, Arabic and countless other tongues.

~Geraldine Brooks

Topics: Arabic Borders Countless Deep English French German Good Good Luck Great Greek Latin Live Luck Means Nation Old Open Other Promiscuous Rich Tongues Universe Use Very Which Words

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When I write a word in English, a simple one, such as, say, 'chief,' I have unwittingly ushered a querulous horde into the room. The Roman legionary is there, shaking his cap, or head, and Andy Capp is there, slouching in his signature working man's headgear.

~Geraldine Brooks

Topics: Andy Cap Chief English Head His Man Roman Room Say Shaking Signature Simple Word Working Write I Write

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Journalist

Born: September 14th, 1955

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