The best essays come from the moment in which people really need to work something out. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I really despise the pathos of being found asleep at odd times in odd places.” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted.” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel for a pretty long time. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Again, all any heart has ever said, and just as the word is said the moment is gone, so there is not… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the visionary aspect of any particular day comes to you in the memory of it, or it opens to you over… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Now that I look back, it seems to me that in all that deep darkness a miracle was preparing. So I am… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
[John] Calvin treats experience as essentially visionary and revelatory from moment to moment, addressed to the individual perceiver, the individual soul. Where… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I think I am like most people in letting myself worry about things that didn't matter. Concepts like quotidian and humdrum prevented… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Teaching is a distraction and a burden, but it's also an incredible stimulus. And a reprieve, in a way. When you're trying… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
When my mother left me waiting for her, [she] established in me the habit of waiting and expectation which makes any present… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I wanted to double-check with you that your mailing address is still the same as the one you sent us back in… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Your mother goes to the public library, which has been down on its luck for a long time, like most things around… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I am saying you must be sure that the doubts and questions are your own, not, so to speak, the mustache and… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
People who feel any sort of regret where you are concerned will suppose you are angry, and they will see anger in… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted. That is why the first event is… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I think about things like the fact that nobody knows what time is. Time is what? Nobody can describe it, even physics… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“She knew better than to waste that time. There isn't always someone who wants you singing to him or nibbling his ear… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The model for our early bankruptcy laws was Deuteronomy, the idea that, under certain circumstances - in Deuteronomy, it is simply the… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
One of the things that is nice about these old pastors - they were young at the time - who went into… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate to… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I could have married again while I was still young. A congregation likes to have a married minister, and I was introduced… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I would say, for the moment, that community, at least community larger than the immediate family, consists very largely of imaginative love… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“We live in a moment in which old conflicts, much altered during their subterraneous years, have boiled up again. The struggle to… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected -… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I tend to think of the reading of any book as preparation for the next reading of it. There are always intervening… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
When you encounter another person, when you have dealings with anyone at all, it is as if a question is being put… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The twinkling of an eye. That is the most wonderful expression. I've thought from time to time it was the best thing… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Many times when I stop working on a problem consciously, my mind continues to work on it below the surface. Often solutions… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“But I’ve developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
A little too much anger, too often or at the wrong time, can destroy more than you would ever imagine. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Their lives spun off the tilting world like thread off a spindle, breakfast time, suppertime, lilac time, apple time.” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted. That is why the first event is… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Anger and self-righteousness combined with cynicism about the world as he or she sees it are the marks of the ideologue. There… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“My point in mentioning this is only to say that people who feel any sort of regret where you are concerned will… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Evening was her special time of day. She gave the world three syllables and indeed I think she liked it so well… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Ascension seemed at such times a natural law. If one added to it a law of completion - that everything must finally… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“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… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I think sometimes there might be an advantage in making people aware how worn and stale these old transgressions are. It might take some… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
There are two occasions when the sacred beauty of Creation becomes dazzlingly apparent, and they occur together. One is when we feel our mortal… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word:Read.” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Faith for her was habit and family loyalty, a reverence for the Bible which was also literary, admiration for her mother and father. And… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.’ There are pleasures to be found where you… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I sometimes am discouraged by what seems to be a sort of conventional disparagement of humankind. I think often people feel that they are… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
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