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Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification.
Marilynne Robinson
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Marilynne Robinson
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: November 26
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Sandpoint
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Marilynne Summers Robinson
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More quotes by Marilynne Robinson
I do assume that a character or a place is inexhaustible and will always reward further attention.
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You see how it is godlike to love the being of someone. Your existence is a delight to us. I hope you never have to long for a child as I did, but oh, what a splendid thing it has been that you came finally, and what a blessing to enjoy you now for almost seven years.
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I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music.
Marilynne Robinson
We have demythologized prematurely, that we've actually lost the vocabulary for discussing reality at its largest scales. The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth.
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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.
Marilynne Robinson
Rejoice with those who rejoice. I have found that difficult too often. I was much better at weeping with those who weep.
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... but it's your existence I love you for, mainly. Existence seems to me now the most remarkable thing that could ever be imagined.
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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.
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There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.
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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.
Marilynne Robinson
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.
Marilynne Robinson
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.
Marilynne Robinson
When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth.
Marilynne Robinson
Fiction that does not acknowledge this at least tacitly is not true.
Marilynne Robinson
. . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving.
Marilynne Robinson
For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers.
Marilynne Robinson
Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.
Marilynne Robinson
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.
Marilynne Robinson
--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.
Marilynne Robinson
We experience pain and difficulty as failure instead of saying, I will pass through this, everyone I have ever admired has passed through this, music has come out of it, literature has come out of it. We should think of our humanity as a privilege.
Marilynne Robinson
