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- I mean the beauty of being a writer is it's not like being a swimmer. When they were talking about our Olympic swimmers and they'd say, 'Oh she's so old,' and she's all of 25 or something. So the beauty for a writer is that you can keep doing it right into your dotage, and I hope to be able to keep doing it as long as I can get away with it, yeah.
- Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city's western reaches, days passed in a sun-struck stupor. In the evenings, families gathered on their verandas waiting for the 'southerly buster' - the thunderstorm that would break the heat and leave the air cool enough to allow sleep.
- There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.
- September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.
- Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books.
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Stgeorgeprod: stars arrive at laguardia airport to protest the house un-american activities witch hunt. lauren bacall, humphrey bogart, gene kelly, sterling hayden, danny kaye, richard conte, paul henreid, geraldine brooks, june havoc, marsha hunt, evelyn keyes, shepperd strudwick, jane wyatt.Artisnaples: based on a remarkable true story, horse tells the tale of a record-breaking thoroughbred and the lost history of the black horsemen behind his success. join elaine newton on 3/30 or 4/1 as she discusses the novel by pulitzer prize winner geraldine brooks.
Ishikhayadav: 20% done with horse, by geraldine brooks
Tlambe1987: i attended geraldine brooks talk last night at the kentucky author’s forum. much talk of reconstruction. i revisited this foner masterpiece after. i think this is one of the most important books i’ve read. most sad is how things have not changed. we should be better than this.
Cm_gridiron: defensive player of the year: congratulations to sulligent’s brooks bozeman and geraldine’s joseph garcia for advancing to cm gridiron’s defensive player of the year final round. follow the link for more information.
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