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Our liberal New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan's bad behavior to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much.
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.
Quotes By Geraldine Brooks
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You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental...
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There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit...
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Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are...
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The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer I walked...
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My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old...
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I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw...
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Both my mum and dad were great readers and we would go every Saturday...
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Sep-11 2001 revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through...
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There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the...
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Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is...
Quotes About Imagination
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Imagination is not something apart and hermetic not a way of leaving reality...
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With the brush we merely tint while the imagination alone produces colour.
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Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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Sometimes surely truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence to love...
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The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character...
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I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer...
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the...