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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: 80
Born: 1943
Born: November 26
Essayist
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Science Fiction Writer
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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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When we did not move or speak, there was no proof that we were there at all.
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Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.
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For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.
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When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters.
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. . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving.
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Anybody who has read any biblical scholarship knows that every scholar struggles over completely intractable problems with the original texts, or what they have to work from. It's one of the great, powerful, mysterious objects that have come down through history. This does not translate into literal interpretation for me.
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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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I like a book to be full of the memory of what it is, a voice in an endless conversation, and yet at the same time to be new.
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My politics, and my religion as well, are based entirely on the loveliness and value of ordinary human lives. The creaky apparatus called politics shelters or oppresses or threatens these lives, and is therefore of interest.
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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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