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Me Quotes by Marilynne Robinson
- 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…
- For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers.
- Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me
- 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…
- 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…
- I think probably one of the important things that happened to me was growing up in Idaho in the mountains, in the woods, and having…
- When my mother left me waiting for her, [she] established in me the habit of waiting and expectation which makes any present moment most significant…
- Somebody who had read Lila asked me, ‘Why do you write about the problem of loneliness?’ I said: ‘It’s not a problem. It’s a condition.…
- Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous…
- It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness but because God…
- The moon looks wonderful in this warm evening light, just as a candle flame looks beautiful in the light of morning. Light within light...It seems…
- I’m writing this in part to tell you that if you ever wonder what you’ve done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or…
- She closed one eye and looked at me and said, "I know there is a blessing in this somewhere." It is worth living long enough…
- ...if you ever wonder what you've done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been God's grace to me, a…
- It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years…
- She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linger over it. The right prayer would have been, Lord . . .…
- Now that I look back, it seems to me that in all that deep darkness a miracle was preparing. So I am right to remember…
- It was a source of both terror and comfort to me then that I often seemed invisible — incompletely and minimally existent, in fact. It…
- Then there is the matter of my mother's abandonment of me. Again, this is the common experience. They walk ahead of us, and walk too…
- It seems to me there is less meanness in atheism, by a good measure. It seems that the spirit of religious self-righteousness this article deplores…
- ... but it's your existence I love you for, mainly. Existence seems to me now the most remarkable thing that could ever be imagined.
- When you encounter another person, when you have dealings with anyone at all, it is as if a question is being put to you. So…
- My brother told me I was going to be a poet. I had a good brother. He did a lot of good brotherly work.
- When I lecture, under almost all circumstances, I write a new lecture for the occasion. It helps me think. It helps me make demands of…
- I like to read in my own house, in any of the rooms I always mean to paint or otherwise improve and never do. Every…
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- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale