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Geraldine Brooks is an Australian journalist known for her in-depth investigative reporting and unique narrative style. She has over 30 years of experience in the news industry, having worked as a journalist and editor for The Sydney Morning Herald, among other news organizations.

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“You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.”

Writing Mind Doe Past Force Violence Modern Empathy Capacity Hatred Fundamentals Driving Modern Society Driving Force

Author:Geraldine Brooks

“How strange it is, Anna. Yesterday, I have filed in my mind as a good day, notwithstanding it was filled with mortal illness and the grieving of the recently bereft. Yet it is a good day, for the simple fact that no one died upon it. We are brought to a sorry state, that we measure what is good by such a shortened yardstick.”

Mind States Facts Simple Strange Died Filled Sorry Illness Yesterday Mortals Grieving Good Day Anna Yardsticks Bereft

Book:Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague

Source: Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague

“Sometimes I want to have a mental book burning that would scour my mind clean of all the filthy visions literature has conjured there. But how to do without 'The Illiad?' How to do without 'Macbeth?”

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Author:Geraldine Brooks

“A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.”

Mind Humans Book Hands Materials Human Mind Artifacts

Book:People of the Book: A Novel

Source: People of the Book: A Novel

“To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.”

Knows Men Mind Attitude Library

Book:March

Source: March

“Who is the brave man--he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and imagination.”

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Book:March

Source: March

“I borrowed his brightness and used it to see my way, and then gradually, from the habit of looking at the world as he illuminated it, the light in my own mind rekindled.”

World Way Mind Light Used My Own Habit My Way Borrowed Brightness

Book:Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague

Source: Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague

About the Author

Born: September 14, 1955
Died: June 19, 1977
Known for: Journalist
Quotes: 103

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