"For me writing has always felt like praying……" — Marilynne Robinson
"For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers."
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Marilynne Robinson
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149 Quotes by Marilynne Robinson
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I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being 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…
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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…
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It is diversity that makes any natural system robust, and diversity that stabilizes culture against the eccentricity and arrogance that…
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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.…
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We inhabit, we are part of, a reality for which explanation is much too poor and small.
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Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and…
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Fiction that does not acknowledge this at least tacitly is not true.
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The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art.
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The only obligation I recognize is to say what I believe to be true [ ] and to say it…
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You have to live with your mind your whole life.
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You build your mind, so make it into something you want to live with.
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