Citas de Geraldine Brooks

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

  Geraldine Brooks

  Actitud, Hombres, Mente

  Geraldine Brooks (2006). “March”, p.19, Penguin

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• Siempre hay unos pocos que se levantan en tiempos de locura comunal y tienen el valor de decir que lo que nos une es más grande que lo que nos divide.

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  Madness, Divides, Greater

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

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  Book, Hands, Mind

  Geraldine Brooks (2008). “People of the Book: A Novel”, p.31, Penguin

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• If there is one class of person I have never quite trusted, it is a man who knows no doubt.

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  Men, Class, Doubt

  Geraldine Brooks (2006). “March”, p.78, Penguin

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• Era como una mariposa, llena de color y vitalidad cuando decidía abrir las alas, pero apenas visible cuando las cerraba.

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  Butterfly, Color, Wings

  Geraldine Brooks (2011). “Caleb's Crossing: A Novel”, p.17, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Imagination, Historical, Fiction

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• Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.

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  People, Moral, Certainty

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• Writing is like bricklaying; you put down one word after another. Sometimes the wall goes up straight and true and sometimes it doesn't and you have to push it down and start again, but you don't stop; it's your trade.

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  Wall, Writing, Down And

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• It is human nature to imagine, to put yourself in another's shoes. The past may be another country. But the only passport required is empathy.

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  Country, Writing, Past

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• You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going.

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  Perseverance, Persistence, Voice

  Geraldine Brooks (2006). “March”, p.167, Penguin

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• 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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  Fear, Men, Imagination

  Geraldine Brooks (2006). “March”, p.106, Penguin

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• If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude.

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  Men, Poverty, Aptitude

  Geraldine Brooks (2006). “March”, p.74, Penguin

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• I swim in a sea of words. They flow around me and through me and, by a process that is not fully clear to me, some delicate hidden membrane draws forth the stuff that is the necessary condition of my life.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Art, Motivation, Sea

  "A Home in Fiction". Boyer Lectures 2011: "The Idea of Home", Lecture 4, www.abc.net.au. December 11, 2011.

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• Write what you know. Every guide for the aspiring author advises this. Because I live in a long-settled rural place, I know certain things. I know the feel of a newborn lamb's damp, tight-curled fleece and the sharp sound a well-bucket chain makes as it scrapes on stone. But more than these material things, I know the feelings that flourish in small communities. And I know other kinds of emotional truths that I believe apply across the centuries.

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  Believe, Writing, Emotional

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• They say the Lord's Day is a day of rest, but those who preach this generally are not women.

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  Lord, Day Of Rest

  Geraldine Brooks (2011). “Caleb's Crossing: A Novel”, p.74, Penguin

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• En lugar de la ociosidad, la vanidad o un intelecto formado por la cuchara de otros, mis hijas han adquirido energía, industria e independencia.

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  Girl, Vanity, Independence

  Geraldine Brooks (2006). “March”, p.85, Penguin

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• Ciertamente, sigo extrayendo mis experiencias como periodista. Creo que no es casualidad que mis tres novelas traten básicamente de cómo actúa la gente en tiempos de catástrofe. ¿Acuden a su mejor yo o a su peor yo?

  Geraldine Brooks

  Pensar, Ser, Personas

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• Despair is a cavern beneath our feet and we teeter on its very brink.

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  Feet, Despair, Caverns

  Geraldine Brooks (2002). “Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague”, p.159, Penguin

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• We were too intelligent, too cynical for war. Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid, primitive death.

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  War, Stupid, Intelligent

  Geraldine Brooks (2008). “People of the Book: A Novel”, p.41, Penguin

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• Y en este momento de la historia, nuestro valor fundamental resulta ser la cruda y dolorosa verdad del predicamento humano. También puede ser la única creencia que puede salvarnos como especie. Una especie que seguirá encontrando consuelo y placer en la compañía de los animales, el milagro de los pájaros, los colores de los corales y la majestuosidad de los bosques. Estamos juntos en esto, en este mármol azul que gira en el frío y silencioso vacío. Y debemos actuar de acuerdo con esa creencia, si queremos seguir viviendo una buena vida aquí, en este hermoso y frágil país, en este precioso planeta, nuestro único hogar.

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  Beautiful, Country, Good Life

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• ...The hagaddah came to Sarajevo for a reason. It was here to test us, to see if there were people who could see that what united us was more than what divided us. That to be a human being matters more than to be a Jew or a Muslim, Catholic or Orthodox. p. 361

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  People, Catholic, Tests

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• And so, as generally happens, those who have most give least, and those with less somehow make shrift to share.

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  Giving, Share, Happens

  Geraldine Brooks (2002). “Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague”, p.76, Penguin

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• No somos el único animal que llora; los simios lo hacen, y los elefantes, y los perros. Sin embargo, somos el único que tortura.

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  Dog, Animal, Elephants

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• Todas las veces, todas las muchísimas veces, que me había visto obligada a frustrar y reprimir mi propia naturaleza parecieron reunirse entonces, en aquel pasillo caluroso y lúgubre. Oí un ruido apresurado en mi cabeza y sentí una presión en el pecho, como la crecida de las aguas tras un dique endeble. Antes de darme cuenta de que lo había hecho, el plato de sopa se elevaba en mi mano como elevado por una fuerza sobrenatural. Luego, su contenido amarillo grisáceo corría por la cara regordeta de la enfermera.

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  Running, Hands, Supernatural Forces

  Geraldine Brooks (2006). “March”, p.140, Penguin

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• Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost any circumstances- by candle light, in longhand, in African villages where there was no power, under shelling in Kurdistan.

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  Writing, Light, Years

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