Marilynne Robinson Quotes
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I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.
Alone
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Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable, and finally has come to look and not to buy.
Buy
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I can’t believe we will forget our sorrows altogether. That would mean forgetting that we had lived, humanly speaking. Sorrow seems to me to be…
Altogether
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It is diversity that makes any natural system robust, and diversity that stabilizes culture against the eccentricity and arrogance that have so often called themselves…
Any
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Two questions I can't really answer about fiction are 1) where it comes from, and 2) why we need it. But that we do create…
Answer
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We inhabit, we are part of, a reality for which explanation is much too poor and small.
Explanation
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Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again.
Aside
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Fiction that does not acknowledge this at least tacitly is not true.
Acknowledge
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The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art.
Art
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The only obligation I recognize is to say what I believe to be true [ ] and to say it with kindness. I believe that…
Believe
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For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers.
Always Felt
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You have to live with your mind your whole life.
Inspirational
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You build your mind, so make it into something you want to live with.
Build
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Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me
Always Seemed
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I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another.
Art
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We experience pain and difficulty as failure instead of saying, I will pass through this, everyone I have ever admired has passed through this, music…
Admired
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If you had to summarize the Old Testament, the summary would be: stop doing this to yourselves.
Old
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It felt very good to have him walking beside her. Good like rest and quiet, like something you could live without but you needed anyway.…
Beside
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There are worries that seem to me sustained by the love of worry. For example, that people are reading from screens, or listening to recorded…
Book
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Many times when I stop working on a problem consciously, my mind continues to work on it below the surface. Often solutions come on me…
Allow
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