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We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.
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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Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification.
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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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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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[John] Calvin treats experience as essentially visionary and revelatory from moment to moment, addressed to the individual perceiver, the individual soul. Where this is assumed preconceptions can only distract and obscure, though, of course, as human beings we can never wholly free ourselves of them.
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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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--There is no justice in love...it is only the glimpse or parable of an incomprehensible reality... the eternal breaking in on the the temporal.
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I don't think I would worry about an oversaturation of information if it was indeed information. It is the slovenly, hasty traffic in cliché and sensationalism and bad reasoning that bothers me. I love finding arcane primary texts on the web. The people who think to put them up are heroes of mine.
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The assumption behind any theology that I've ever been familiar with is that there is a profound beauty in being, simply in itself. Poetry, at least traditionally, has been an educing of the beauty of language, the beauty of experience, the beauty of the working of the mind, and so on. The pastor does, indeed, appreciate it.
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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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I'm amazed at what I have taken for granted. How to truly take in our situation I don't know, but I wish I had started asking myself that question earlier than I did.
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When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth.
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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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Generosity is also an act of freedom, a casting off of the constraints of prudence and self-interest.
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For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers.
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You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time.
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I think probably one of the important things that happened to me was growing up in Idaho in the mountains, in the woods, and having a very strong presence of the wilderness around me. That never felt like emptiness. It always felt like presence.
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Fiction that does not acknowledge this at least tacitly is not true.
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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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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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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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