Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.
– Geraldine Brooks
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- Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move. – Clay Shirky
- And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder. – John Steinbeck
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- This night he was a king before he was a man. At this time, this troubled me. Later, I would have cause to wish it were always so. – Geraldine Brooks
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- Heralds of the gospel have been needed in every generation. This generation is no different. – Katy Kauffman
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- Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental. – Geraldine Brooks
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- I ceased to serve a king and began, instead, to serve a kingdom. – Geraldine Brooks
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- When nothing is at stake, everything’s a waste. – Crystal Woods