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For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers.
Marilynne Robinson
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Marilynne Robinson
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: November 26
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Idaho
Marilynne Summers Robinson
Marilynne S. Robinson
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I had been reading about [John] Calvin for years and had been studying the English Renaissance for many more years, and it had never occurred to me to think of them together. I learned that Calvin was the most widely read writer in England in Shakespeare's lifetime. He was translated and published in many editions.
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I think I am like most people in letting myself worry about things that didn't matter. Concepts like quotidian and humdrum prevented me for years from really absorbing the miraculous strangeness of bombing around a star on a tottering planet, of watching the world unfold in time.
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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 as a blessed time, and myself as waiting in confidence, even if I had no idea what i was waiting for.
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People talk about how wonderful the world seems to children, and that's true enough. But children think they will grow into it and understand it, and I know very well that I will not, and would not if I had a dozen lives.
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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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Cultures cherish artists because they are people who can say, Look at that.
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I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another.
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Weary or bitter of bewildered as we may be, God is faithful. He lets us wander so we will know what it means to come home.
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That's one good thing about the way life is, that no one can know you if you don't let them.
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You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time.
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There are two occasions when the sacred beauty of Creation becomes dazzlingly apparent, and they occur together. One is when we feel our mortal insufficiency to the world, and the other is when we feel the world's mortal insufficiency to us.
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Faith takes a great many forms, suited to a variety of sensibilities, and mine happens to suit me very well.
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Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again.
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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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You have to live with your mind your whole life.
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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 quite by surprise. I've learned over time to allow that to happen, rather than to feel that I can simply solve the problem by continuous, grueling effort.
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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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That is how life goes--we send our children into the wilderness. Some of them on the day they are born, it seems, for all the help we can give them. Some of them seem to be a kind of wilderness unto themselves. But there must be angels there, too, and springs of water. Even that wilderness, the very habitation of jackals, is the Lord's.
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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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I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation.
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