What did Geraldine Brooks mean by: Both my parents loved words. That was the big deal in our house. - Geraldine Brooks Author · Australia Copy
+ Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Geraldine Brooks, Certainty, Moral, 0 - Geraldine Brooks Author · Australia
+ Despair is a cavern beneath our feet and we teeter on its very brink. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Geraldine Brooks, Caverns, Despair, Feet, 0 - Geraldine Brooks Author · Australia
+ Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Geraldine Brooks, Book, Burning, Graves, 0 - Geraldine Brooks Author · Australia
+ I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Geraldine Brooks, Sacrifice, War, 0 - Geraldine Brooks Author · Australia
+ For to know a man’s library is, in some measure, to know his mind. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2022January 10, 2024, Geraldine Brooks, Book, Knowledge, Mind, 0 - Geraldine Brooks Author · Australia
+ If there is one class of person I have never quite trusted, it is a man who knows no doubt. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Geraldine Brooks, Class, Doubt, 0 - Geraldine Brooks Author · Australia
+ A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Geraldine Brooks, Book, Hands, Mind, 0 - Geraldine Brooks Author · Australia
+ To know a man’s library is, in some measure, to know a man’s mind. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Geraldine Brooks, Attitude, Mind, 0 - Geraldine Brooks Author · Australia
I won’t bet $100 against house odds between now and the grave. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face? - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Why should the lamp or the house be an art object but not our life? - Michel Foucault Philosopher and historian of ideas · France
Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies. - Jean Houston Scholar
Like many a modern parent, I had no clear notion of how to help my most troubled child. - Jean Sasson
Excuse me if I’m clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread. - Jeanne Calment Painter · France
No sensible person ever opens the door of his house without knowing who is knocking. - Jeff Cooper Firearms instructor and author
