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If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot but apart from that for her also it was an experience.
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.
Quotes By Geraldine Brooks
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The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual...
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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 Religion
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Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of...
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Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of...
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Religion is the idol of the mob it adores everything it does not understand.
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When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink and...
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I think I'm fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of...
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The advent of a new religion making serious and impressive claims to embody...
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I've been a little bit obsessed with religion without being a religious...
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I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal...
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They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the...