"I owe everything that I have done to……" — Marilynne Robinson
"I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone."
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149 Quotes by Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson has 149 quotes on this site.
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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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For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers.
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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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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately…
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
— Paul Auster
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I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came…
— Dido Armstrong
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her…
— Jane Austen
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
— Richard Avedon
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to…
— Teresa of Avila
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward,…
— Teresa of Avila
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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
— Diane Ackerman
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges…
— Michelle Bachelet
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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