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title: "4 Housekeeping Quotes By Marilynne Robinson"
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> [“At a certain level housekeeping is a regime of small kindnesses, which, taken together, make the world salubrious, savory, and warm.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilynne-robinson/at-a-certain-level-housekeeping-is-a-regime-of-small-kindnesses-which/)

[Marilynne Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilynne-robinson/)

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> [Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel for a pretty long time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilynne-robinson/many-readers-know-my-work-first-through-housekeeping-simply-because/)

[Marilynne Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilynne-robinson/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/864/marilynne-robinson-602_because_many-readers-know-my-work-first-through_1196315.png)

> [Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable and finally has come to look and not to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilynne-robinson/every-spirit-passing-through-the-world-fingers-the-tangible-and-mars-2/)

[Marilynne Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilynne-robinson/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/483/marilynne-robinson-602_apples_every-spirit-passing-through-the-world-f_2312437.jpg)

> [My first novel, 'Housekeeping,' was accepted by the first agent who read it, and bought by the first editor who read it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilynne-robinson/my-first-novel-housekeeping-was-accepted-by-the-first-agent-who-read/)

[Marilynne Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilynne-robinson/)

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## Other authors on Housekeeping

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-david-thoreau-41473.jpg) Henry David Thoreau 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/housekeeping/henry-david-thoreau/)

## More by Marilynne Robinson

> [“But I’ve developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilynne-robinson/but-i-ve-developed-a-great-reputation-for-wisdom-by-ordering-more/)

[Marilynne Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilynne-robinson/)

> [For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilynne-robinson/for-our-purposes-as-human-beings-the-mind-is-the-center-of-everything/)

[Marilynne Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilynne-robinson/)

> [“I think sometimes there might be an advantage in making people aware how worn and stale these old transgressions are. It might take some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilynne-robinson/i-think-sometimes-there-might-be-an-advantage-in-making-people-aware/)

[Marilynne Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilynne-robinson/)

> [There are two occasions when the sacred beauty of Creation becomes dazzlingly apparent, and they occur together. One is when we feel our mortal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilynne-robinson/there-are-two-occasions-when-the-sacred-beauty-of-creation-becomes/)

[Marilynne Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilynne-robinson/)

> [My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilynne-robinson/my-calvinism-persuades-me-that-we-are-open-to-god-in-the-sense-that/)

[Marilynne Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilynne-robinson/)

> [“You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilynne-robinson/you-can-know-a-thing-to-death-and-be-for-all-purposes-completely/)

[Marilynne Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilynne-robinson/)

> [I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilynne-robinson/i-listen-to-bach-a-great-deal-in-general-i-like-to-listen-to-hymns/)

[Marilynne Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilynne-robinson/)

> [“Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word:Read.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilynne-robinson/every-writer-i-know-when-asked-how-to-become-a-writer-responds-with/)

[Marilynne Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilynne-robinson/)

> [“Faith for her was habit and family loyalty, a reverence for the Bible which was also literary, admiration for her mother and father. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilynne-robinson/faith-for-her-was-habit-and-family-loyalty-a-reverence-for-the-bible/)

[Marilynne Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilynne-robinson/)

> [“Prayer is a discipline in truthfulness, in honesty.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilynne-robinson/prayer-is-a-discipline-in-truthfulness-in-honesty/)

[Marilynne Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilynne-robinson/)

> [“The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.’ There are pleasures to be found where you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilynne-robinson/the-full-soul-loatheth-an-honeycomb-but-to-the-hungry-soul-every/)

[Marilynne Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilynne-robinson/)

> [I sometimes am discouraged by what seems to be a sort of conventional disparagement of humankind. I think often people feel that they are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilynne-robinson/i-sometimes-am-discouraged-by-what-seems-to-be-a-sort-of-conventional/)

[Marilynne Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilynne-robinson/)

> [Now that I look back, it seems to me that in all that deep darkness a miracle was preparing. So I am right to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilynne-robinson/now-that-i-look-back-it-seems-to-me-that-in-all-that-deep-darkness-a/)

[Marilynne Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilynne-robinson/)

> [“My grandfather once told her if you couldn't read with cold feet, there wouldn't be a literate soul in the state of Maine.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilynne-robinson/my-grandfather-once-told-her-if-you-couldn-t-read-with-cold-feet/)

[Marilynne Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilynne-robinson/)

> [“Cranky old Leviticus gave us—gave Christ—not only “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself” but also the rather forgotten “Thou shalt love the stranger…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilynne-robinson/cranky-old-leviticus-gave-us-gave-christ-not-only-thou-shalt-love-thy/)

[Marilynne Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilynne-robinson/)

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