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Facts Quotes by Marilynne Robinson
- I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.
- Fact explains nothing. On the contrary, it is fact that requires explanation.
- I have spent my life watching, not to see beyond the world, merely to see, great mystery, what is plainly before my eyes. I think…
- I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things.
- It was a source of both terror and comfort to me then that I often seemed invisible — incompletely and minimally existent, in fact. It…
- I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected — an arrival, an…
- Everything that falls upon the eye is apparition, a sheet dropped over the world's true workings. The nerves and the brain are tricked, and one…
- The twinkling of an eye. That is the most wonderful expression. I've thought from time to time it was the best thing in life, that…
- I tend to think of the reading of any book as preparation for the next reading of it. There are always intervening books or facts…
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- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
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- I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its… — Antonin Artaud
- Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a… — Rowan Atkinson
- I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I… — David Attenborough
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender… — David Attenborough
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art… — Wystan Hugh Auden