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This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.
Marilynne Robinson
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Marilynne Robinson
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: November 26
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Sandpoint
Idaho
Marilynne Summers Robinson
Marilynne S. Robinson
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I do assume that a character or a place is inexhaustible and will always reward further attention.
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I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music.
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When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth.
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Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.
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Rejoice with those who rejoice. I have found that difficult too often. I was much better at weeping with those who weep.
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Generosity is also an act of freedom, a casting off of the constraints of prudence and self-interest.
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I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it.
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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. But that we do create it and also crave it is beyond dispute.
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This morning the world by moonlight seemed to be an immemorial acquaintance I had always meant to befriend. If there was ever a chance, it had passed. Strange to say, I feel a little that way about myself.
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I have always liked the phrase nursing a grudge because many people are tender of their resentments as of the thing nearest their hearts.
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Grace has a grand laughter in it.
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Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.
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In eternity this world will be like Troy, I believe, and all that has passed here will be the epic of the universe, the ballad they sing in the streets.
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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 their Father loves them.
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It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company.
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He [Christ] even restored the severed ear of the soldier who came to arrest Him - a fact that allows us to hope the resurrection will reflect a considerable attention to detail.
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For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.
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When we accept dismissive judgments of our community we stop having generous hope for it. We cease to be capable of serving its best interests.
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It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.
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People don't acknowledge loneliness in themselves, and don't appreciate its benefits, the reflection and attentiveness that come with it, the deepened acquaintance with oneself.
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