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I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another.
Marilynne Robinson
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Marilynne Robinson
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: November 26
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Idaho
Marilynne Summers Robinson
Marilynne S. Robinson
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Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs and every song recalls a thousand sorrows and so they are infinite in number and all the same.
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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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I would advise you against defensiveness on priciple. it precludes the best eventualities along with the worst. At the most basic level it expresses a lack of faith.
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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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These people who can see right through you never quite do you justice, because they never give you credit for the effort you're making to be better than you actually are, which is difficult and well meant and deserving of some little notice.
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A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.
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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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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 is not to say that joy is a compensation for loss, but that each of them, joy and loss, exists in its own right and must be recognised for what it is ... So joy can be joy and sorrow can be sorrow, with neither of them casting either light or shadow on the other.
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A little too much anger, too often or at the wrong time, can destroy more than you would ever imagine.
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You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time.
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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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The best essays come from the moment in which people really need to work something out.
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Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable, and finally has come to look and not to buy.
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For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers.
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It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men.
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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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There are several sources for my appreciation of pastors and the way they are described in this book. One of them is reading history and realizing that they had a profound creative impact on the Middle West and the settlement of the Middle West.
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Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak alchemy what had been mere unbeing becomes death when life is mingled with it.
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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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