What did Geraldine Brooks mean by: Here we are, alive, and you and I will have to make it what we can. Geraldine Brooks Author · Australia Copy
A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Geraldine Brooks, Craftsmanship, Creativity, Significance, 0 Geraldine Brooks Author · Australia
Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Geraldine Brooks, Certainty, Deafening, Truth, 0 Geraldine Brooks Author · Australia
To know a man’s library is, in some measure, to know a man’s mind. Author, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Geraldine Brooks, Attitude, Mind, 0 Geraldine Brooks Author · Australia
Despair is a cavern beneath our feet and we teeter on its very brink. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Geraldine Brooks, Cavern, Despair, Teetering, 0 Geraldine Brooks Author · Australia
Both my parents loved words. That was the big deal in our house. Author, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Geraldine Brooks, House, Parents, 0 Geraldine Brooks Author · Australia
+ For to know a man’s library is, in some measure, to know his mind. Author, December 23, 2022December 25, 2024, Geraldine Brooks, Knowledge, Personality, Understanding, 0 Geraldine Brooks Author · Australia
I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Geraldine Brooks, Honour, Sacrifice, War, 0 Geraldine Brooks Author · Australia
Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Geraldine Brooks, Censorship, Tyranny, Warning, 0 Geraldine Brooks Author · Australia
I understand that it is not when or how you die but how and if you truly were ever alive. Jerri Nielsen
It’s important to be alive in those moment, especially when you’re doing something you love to do. Jenifer Lewis Actress
A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead. Jean le Rond d'Alembert Mathematician and physicist · France