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I think hope is the worst thing in the world. I really do. It makes a fool of you while it lasts. And then when it's gone, it's like there's nothing left of you at all . . . except what you can't be rid of.
Marilynne Robinson
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Marilynne Robinson
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: November 26
Essayist
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Sandpoint
Idaho
Marilynne Summers Robinson
Marilynne S. Robinson
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Fiction that does not acknowledge this at least tacitly is not true.
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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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For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers.
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Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification.
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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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To think that only faultless people are worthwhile seems like an incredible exclusion of almost everything of deep value in the human saga. Sometimes I can't believe the narrowness that has been attributed to God in terms of what he would approve and disapprove.
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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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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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Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.
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Cultures cherish artists because they are people who can say, Look at that.
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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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Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.
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