"When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to stop. You can't go. You can't suppose. You can't imagine. And I think there's something in human nature that wants to finish the story."

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Source : Source: film.avclub.com

Geraldine Brooks

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“Important days don't look like anything special when they start. Invariably, the sun rises and people wake up. Coffee is swilled and eggs are swallowed. Everybody goes about the business of acting like their lives matter and then, no matter how important the events of the day end up being, the sun invariably sets. The sun rose before the soldiers stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day, and the sun set after Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed. Sunrises and sunsets are real jerks about putting things in perspective.”

Source : Josh Lieb (2009). “I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President”, p.157, Penguin
“I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team.”
“If we believe in Jesus, it is not what we gain but what He pours through us that really counts. Godâ€™s purpose is not simply to make us beautiful, plump grapes, but to make us grapes so that He may squeeze the sweetness out of us.”
“Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?”
“I am a gay, Christian, farm girl from Kansas who sang Country Music and I did the very best I could do -- to know God and to share God.”

Source : "Confessions of a Gay Christian Country Singer" by Chely Wright, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2011.
“Take it easy drivingâ€“ the life you save may be mine.”
“For a generation, terrorists learned they could make war on free nations without fear of war in return. On September 12, the terrorists got war in return.”
“I think the terrorists are just idiots.”

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