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For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.

Marilynne Robinson

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Marilynne Robinson
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: November 26
Essayist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Sandpoint
Idaho
Marilynne Summers Robinson
Marilynne S. Robinson
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Human
Everything
Humans
Mind
Purposes
Center
Beings

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