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I think the essence of family is that you have to agree to it, and then supply, out of your imagination and capacity for loyalty, the contents of it.
Marilynne Robinson
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Marilynne Robinson
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: November 26
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Sandpoint
Idaho
Marilynne Summers Robinson
Marilynne S. Robinson
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It was a source of both terror and comfort to me then that I often seemed invisible - incompletely and minimally existent, in fact. It seemed to me that I made no impact on the world, and that in exchange I was privileged to watch it unawares.
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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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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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Sometimes my doubt seems intuitive, but most likely it derives from an implausibility or a logical problem I may at first find difficult to identify and articulate. It is interesting to me to work through questions that arise in this way.
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For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers.
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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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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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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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Generosity is also an act of freedom, a casting off of the constraints of prudence and self-interest.
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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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Boughton says he has more ideas about heaven every day. He said, Mainly I just think about the splendors of the world and multiply by two. I'd multiply by ten or twelve if I had the energy.
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When we accept dismissive judgments of our community we stop having generous hope for it. We cease to be capable of serving its best interests.
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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 want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another.
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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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Christianity is a life, not a doctrine . . . I'm not saying never doubt or question. The Lord gave you a mind so that you would make honest use of it. I'm saying you must be sure that the doubts and questions are your own.
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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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And there is no living creature, though the whims of eons had put its eyes on boggling stalks and clamped it in a carapace, diminished it to a pinpoint and given it a taste for mud and stuck it down a well or hid it under a stone, but that creature will live on if it can.
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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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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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