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From Quotes by Marilynne Robinson
- 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…
- The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art.
- 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…
- The best essays come from the moment in which people really need to work something out.
- If these laws [in the Bible] belonged to any other ancient culture we would approach them very differently. We need not bother to reject the…
- Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense.
- She conceived of life as a road down which one traveled, an easy enough road through a broad country, and that one's destination was there…
- I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than…
- Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable and finally has come to look and not to buy. So shoes…
- It is an amazing thing to watch people laugh, the way it sort of takes them over. Sometimes they really do struggle with it .…
- He will wipe the tears from all faces.' It takes nothing from the loveliness of the verse to say that is exactly what will be…
- 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…
- Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair.
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