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I do assume that a character or a place is inexhaustible and will always reward further attention.
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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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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Cultures cherish artists because they are people who can say, Look at that.
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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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Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.
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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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When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters.
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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 experience religious dread whenever I find myself thinking that I know the limits of God’s grace, since I am utterly certain it exceeds any imagination a human being might have of it. God does, after all, so love the world.
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God does not need our worship. We worship to enlarge our sense of holy, so that we can feel and know the presense of the Lord, who is with us always. He said, Love is what it amounts to, a loftier love, and pleasure in a loving presence.
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Somebody who had read Lila asked me, ‘Why do you write about the problem of loneliness?’ I said: ‘It’s not a problem. It’s a condition. It’s a passion of a kind. It’s not a problem. I think that people make it a problem by interpreting it that way.’
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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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Anybody who has read any biblical scholarship knows that every scholar struggles over completely intractable problems with the original texts, or what they have to work from. It's one of the great, powerful, mysterious objects that have come down through history. This does not translate into literal interpretation for me.
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More generally, people who lived in a period when maternal, infant and childhood mortality were still high would have been tougher than most of us can imagine.
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I think hope is the worst thing in the world. I really do. It makes a fool of you while it lasts. And then when it's gone, it's like there's nothing left of you at all . . . except what you can't be rid of.
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You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time.
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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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Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.
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Grace has a grand laughter in it.
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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.
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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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