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Marilynne Robinson Quotes
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A lot of Christian extremism has done a great deal to discredit religion; the main religious traditions have abandoned their own intellectual cultures so drastically that no one has any sense of it other than the fringe. (Marilynne Robinson Quotes)
I really can’t claim ever to have had an exceptionally close relationship with a minister. I’m always there. I pay my pledge. I listen and observe with interest. I’m very sympathetic with the rigor and the aesthetic quality of what they do. Aside from that, I don’t have a kind of personal experience with any of them that I could consider privileged, so to speak. (Marilynne Robinson Quotes)
Dawn and its excesses always reminded me of heaven, a place where I have always known I would not be comfortable. (Marilynne Robinson Quotes)
Then there is the matter of my mother’s abandonment of me. Again, this is the common experience. They walk ahead of us, and walk too fast, and forget us, they are so lost in thoughts of their own, and soon or late they disappear. The only mystery is that we expect it to be otherwise. (Marilynne Robinson Quotes)
The mind has a complex life that can seem quite autonomous - dreams, obsessions, unwilled memory are all instances of this. (Marilynne Robinson Quotes)
Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I’m attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous old books on philosophy or theology that I want to see with my own eyes, by essays on contemporary science, by the literatures of antiquity. (Marilynne Robinson Quotes)
Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair. (Marilynne Robinson Quotes)
We are in the process of disabling our most distinctive achievement - our educational system - in the name of making the country more like itself. (Marilynne Robinson Quotes)
When I read ‘Paradise Lost,’ or ‘Richard III,’ it is clear that Milton and Shakespeare took real pleasure and satisfaction from creating these epitomes of evil. (Marilynne Robinson Quotes)
The broadest possible exercise of imagination is the thing most conducive to human health, individual and global (Marilynne Robinson Quotes)
When I’m writing fiction, I’m sort of interested by the fact that somehow or other I can have the feeling of actually seeing things through someone else’s eyes. (Marilynne Robinson Quotes)
Faith for her was habit and family loyalty, a reverence for the Bible which was also literary, admiration for her mother and father. And then that thrilling quiet of which she had never felt any need to speak. (Marilynne Robinson Quotes)
My brother told me I was going to be a poet. I had a good brother. He did a lot of good brotherly work. (Marilynne Robinson Quotes)
Limitation is a good discipline because it discourages inappropriate generalization, which distracts attention from the profound, particular complexity that characterizes anything at all. (Marilynne Robinson Quotes)
That’s one good thing about the way life is, that no one can know you if you don’t let them. (Marilynne Robinson Quotes)
Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I’m quiet myself. I don’t think I said three words the whole of graduate school. (Marilynne Robinson Quotes)
My heroes are, above all, the great 19th-century Americans: Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson and the others. I love the way they think. (Marilynne Robinson Quotes)
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. (Marilynne Robinson Quotes)
But there is something about human beings that too often makes our love for the world look very much like hatred for it. (Marilynne Robinson Quotes)
Fact explains nothing. On the contrary, it is fact that requires explanation (Marilynne Robinson Quotes)
When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters (Marilynne Robinson Quotes)
This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it (Marilynne Robinson Quotes)
... there is an absolute disjunction between our Father’s love and our deserving (Marilynne Robinson Quotes)
When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth (Marilynne Robinson Quotes)
There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient (Marilynne Robinson Quotes)
It is possible to know the great truths without feeling the truth of them (Marilynne Robinson Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The great truth that is too often forgotten is that it is in the nature of people to do good to one another (Marilynne Robinson Quotes)
Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs, and every song recalls a thousand sorrows, and so they are infinite in number, and all the same (Marilynne Robinson Quotes)
Pity and charity may be at root an attempt to propitiate the dark powers that have not touched us yet (Marilynne Robinson Quotes)