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Marilynne Robinson quotes: He was going on about baptism. A birth and a death and a marriage, he said. A touch of water and these children are given the whole of life. He was going on about baptism. A birth and a death and a marriage, he said. A touch of water and these children are given the whole of life.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: Grace has a grand laughter in it. Grace has a grand laughter in it.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things. There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: It is hardship that makes clear who the "fighters" are. It is hardship that makes clear who the "fighters" are.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: You're right not to talk. It's a sort of higher honesty, I think. Once you start talking, there's no telling what you'll say. You're right not to talk. It's a sort of higher honesty, I think. Once you start talking, there's no telling what you'll say.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: 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. 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.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: Generosity is also an act of freedom, a casting off of the constraints of prudence and self-interest. Generosity is also an act of freedom, a casting off of the constraints of prudence and self-interest.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: It is possible to know the great truths without feeling the truth of them. It is possible to know the great truths without feeling the truth of them.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: It is better to have nothing, for at last even our bones will fall. It is better to have nothing. It is better to have nothing, for at last even our bones will fall. It is better to have nothing.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: it's hard to find time to think about Kansas. it's hard to find time to think about Kansas.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: Remembering and forgiving can be contrary things Remembering and forgiving can be contrary things
Marilynne Robinson quotes: Grant me on earth what seems Thee best, Till death and Heav'n reveal the rest. - Isaac Watts Grant me on earth what seems Thee best, Till death and Heav'n reveal the rest. - Isaac Watts
Marilynne Robinson quotes: Faith takes a great many forms, suited to a variety of sensibilities, and mine happens to suit me very well. Faith takes a great many forms, suited to a variety of sensibilities, and mine happens to suit me very well.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: He looked up at her. Kindness was something he didn't even know he wanted, and here it was. He looked up at her. Kindness was something he didn't even know he wanted, and here it was.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: I believe the sin of covetise is that pang of resentment you may feel when even the people you love best have what you want and don't have. I believe the sin of covetise is that pang of resentment you may feel when even the people you love best have what you want and don't have.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: She liked to hear people tell stories. The saddest ones were the best. She wondered if that meant anything at all. She liked to hear people tell stories. The saddest ones were the best. She wondered if that meant anything at all.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: There is a wound in the flesh of human life that scars when it heals and often enough seems never to heal at all. Avoid There is a wound in the flesh of human life that scars when it heals and often enough seems never to heal at all. Avoid
Marilynne Robinson quotes: I really enjoyed my kids. They were good boys, you know, and interesting. And they didn't wear me out. I really enjoyed my kids. They were good boys, you know, and interesting. And they didn't wear me out.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: Sometimes the visionary aspect of any particular day comes to you in the memory of it, or it opens to you over time. Sometimes the visionary aspect of any particular day comes to you in the memory of it, or it opens to you over time.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: I have always wondered what relationship this present reality bears to an ultimate reality. I have always wondered what relationship this present reality bears to an ultimate reality.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: I like a book to be full of the memory of what it is, a voice in an endless conversation, and yet at the same time to be new. I like a book to be full of the memory of what it is, a voice in an endless conversation, and yet at the same time to be new.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: You're my wife," he said. "I want to take care of you, even if that means someday seeing you to the train. You're my wife," he said. "I want to take care of you, even if that means someday seeing you to the train.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense. Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: I am in a state of categorical unbelief. I don't even believe God doesn't exist, if you see what I mean. (Jack Boughton) I am in a state of categorical unbelief. I don't even believe God doesn't exist, if you see what I mean. (Jack Boughton)
Marilynne Robinson quotes: And she was old, too. For a woman being old just means not being young, and all the youth had been worked out of her before it had really even And she was old, too. For a woman being old just means not being young, and all the youth had been worked out of her before it had really even set in.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: Vision sometimes comes in a memory. Vision sometimes comes in a memory.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: When she had been married a little while, she concluded that love was half a longing of a kind that possession did nothing to mitigate. When she had been married a little while, she concluded that love was half a longing of a kind that possession did nothing to mitigate.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: Remembering my youth makes me aware that I never really had enough of it, it was over before I was done with it. Remembering my youth makes me aware that I never really had enough of it, it was over before I was done with it.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: She'd thought the world was just hayfields and cornfields and and bean fields and apple orchards. The people who owned them and the people who didn't. She'd thought the world was just hayfields and cornfields and and bean fields and apple orchards. The people who owned them and the people who didn't.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: I don't think I could write a novel that wasn't theological. I don't think I could write a novel that wasn't theological.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: I do have an impulse to sort of leverage what I say against something I disagree with. I do have an impulse to sort of leverage what I say against something I disagree with.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: I do assume that a character or a place is inexhaustible and will always reward further attention. I do assume that a character or a place is inexhaustible and will always reward further attention.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: She pretended he knew some of her thoughts, only some of them, the ones she would like to show him. She pretended he knew some of her thoughts, only some of them, the ones she would like to show him.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: A letter makes ordinary things seem important. A letter makes ordinary things seem important.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: I find that the hardest work in the world ... is to persuade Easterners that growing up in the West is not intellectually crippling. I find that the hardest work in the world ... is to persuade Easterners that growing up in the West is not intellectually crippling.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: The best essays come from the moment in which people really need to work something out. The best essays come from the moment in which people really need to work something out.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: 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. 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.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time. It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so. It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: All this seems preposterous. But in fact one lapse of judgment can quickly create a situation in which only foolish choices are possible. All this seems preposterous. But in fact one lapse of judgment can quickly create a situation in which only foolish choices are possible.
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. 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: In St. Louis one of the girls had said to her, Just pretend you're pretty so they can pretend you're pretty. In St. Louis one of the girls had said to her, Just pretend you're pretty so they can pretend you're pretty.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: I need not fear that the Lord would come to me with His sorrows. I need not fear that the Lord would come to me with His sorrows.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company. It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: We are culturally predisposed to sheltering criticism from criticism; we have enshrined the iconoclast We are culturally predisposed to sheltering criticism from criticism; we have enshrined the iconoclast
Marilynne Robinson quotes: Morality is a check upon the strongest temptations. Morality is a check upon the strongest temptations.
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. 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: We inhabit, we are part of, a reality for which explanation is much too poor and small. We inhabit, we are part of, a reality for which explanation is much too poor and small.
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. 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: Any good thing is less good the more any human being lays claim to it. Any good thing is less good the more any human being lays claim to it.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: If different systems don't merge in a comprehensible way, that's a flaw in our comprehension and not a flaw in one system or the other. If different systems don't merge in a comprehensible way, that's a flaw in our comprehension and not a flaw in one system or the other.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was. Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: I feel as if I am being left out, as though I'm some straggler and people can't quite remember to stay back for me. I feel as if I am being left out, as though I'm some straggler and people can't quite remember to stay back for me.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: I have spent years of my life lovingly absorbed in the thoughts and perceptions of . . . people who do not exist. I have spent years of my life lovingly absorbed in the thoughts and perceptions of . . . people who do not exist.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: Off the tilting world like thread off a Off the tilting world like thread off a
Marilynne Robinson quotes: Lila would never tell anyone about that time. She knew it would sound very sad, and it wasn't, really. Lila would never tell anyone about that time. She knew it would sound very sad, and it wasn't, really.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: The fact is, it is seldom indeed that any wrong one suffers is not thoroughly foreshadowed by wrongs one has done. The fact is, it is seldom indeed that any wrong one suffers is not thoroughly foreshadowed by wrongs one has done.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: Doctrine is not belief, it is only one way of talking about belief. Doctrine is not belief, it is only one way of talking about belief.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: When I was a child, I read books. My reading was not indiscriminate. I preferred books that were old and thick and hard. I made vocabulary lists. When I was a child, I read books. My reading was not indiscriminate. I preferred books that were old and thick and hard. I made vocabulary lists.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: I'd rather drop dead doing for myself than add a day to my life by acting helpless. I'd rather drop dead doing for myself than add a day to my life by acting helpless.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: Fact explains nothing. On the contrary, it is fact that requires explanation. Fact explains nothing. On the contrary, it is fact that requires explanation.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: In eternity people's lives could be altogether what they were and had been, not just the worst things they ever did, or the best things either. In eternity people's lives could be altogether what they were and had been, not just the worst things they ever did, or the best things either.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: Dawn and its excesses always reminded me of heaven, a place where I have always known I would not be comfortable. Dawn and its excesses always reminded me of heaven, a place where I have always known I would not be comfortable.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: It all means more than I can tell you. So you must not judge what I know by what I find words for. It all means more than I can tell you. So you must not judge what I know by what I find words for.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: I believe there are visions that come to us only in memory, in retrospect. I believe there are visions that come to us only in memory, in retrospect.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: The best things that happen I'd never have thought to pray for. In a million years. The worst things just come like the weather. The best things that happen I'd never have thought to pray for. In a million years. The worst things just come like the weather.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know. One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: Children seem to think that every pleasant thing has to be a surprise. Children seem to think that every pleasant thing has to be a surprise.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: To condescend effectively it is clearly necessary to adhere to a narrow definition of relevant data. To condescend effectively it is clearly necessary to adhere to a narrow definition of relevant data.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: Everything always bears looking into, astonishing as that fact is. Everything always bears looking into, astonishing as that fact is.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: Avoid transgression. How's that for advice. Avoid transgression. How's that for advice.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted. The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word:Read. Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word:Read.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: You build your mind, so make it into something you want to live with. You build your mind, so make it into something you want to live with.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maiden.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: In that eternity of his, where everybody will be happy, how could he feel the lack of her, the loss of her? In that eternity of his, where everybody will be happy, how could he feel the lack of her, the loss of her?
Marilynne Robinson quotes: My custom has always been to ponder grief; that is, to follow it through ventricle and aorta to find its lurking places. My custom has always been to ponder grief; that is, to follow it through ventricle and aorta to find its lurking places.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: That reservoir of goodness beyond and of another kind that we are able to do for each other in the ordinary cause of things. That reservoir of goodness beyond and of another kind that we are able to do for each other in the ordinary cause of things.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: Adulthood is a wonderful thing, and brief. You must be sure to enjoy it while it lasts. Adulthood is a wonderful thing, and brief. You must be sure to enjoy it while it lasts.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: Clean and acceptable. It would be something to know what that felt like, even for an hour or two. Clean and acceptable. It would be something to know what that felt like, even for an hour or two.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: There in the dark and the quiet I felt I could forget all the tedious particulars and just feel the presence of his mortal and immortal being. There in the dark and the quiet I felt I could forget all the tedious particulars and just feel the presence of his mortal and immortal being.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything. For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: It is clearly true that the reflex of disparagement is no more compatible with rigorous inquiry than the impulse to glorify. It is clearly true that the reflex of disparagement is no more compatible with rigorous inquiry than the impulse to glorify.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: If you had to summarize the Old Testament, the summary would be: stop doing this to yourselves. If you had to summarize the Old Testament, the summary would be: stop doing this to yourselves.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire. It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: But it's your existence I love you for, mainly. Existence seems to me now the most remarkable thing that could ever be imagined. But it's your existence I love you for, mainly. Existence seems to me now the most remarkable thing that could ever be imagined.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: It was an experience I might have missed. Now I only fear I will not have time enough to fully enjoy the thought of it. It was an experience I might have missed. Now I only fear I will not have time enough to fully enjoy the thought of it.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: Things are so vulnerable to the humiliations of decay. Things are so vulnerable to the humiliations of decay.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: There is no strictly secular language that can translate religious awe. There is no strictly secular language that can translate religious awe.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: Cultures cherish artists because they are people who can say, Look at that. Cultures cherish artists because they are people who can say, Look at that.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: In St. Louis they had made a sort of game of it, trying to pretty her up. Everything looked wrong. Just pretend you're pretty. In St. Louis they had made a sort of game of it, trying to pretty her up. Everything looked wrong. Just pretend you're pretty.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: 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. 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.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: Well, he says, basically, that people have to suffer to really recognize grace when it comes. I Well, he says, basically, that people have to suffer to really recognize grace when it comes. I
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. 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: That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth. That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.
Marilynne Robinson quotes: It seems as though the conclusions are never as interesting as the questions. I mean, they're not what you remember. It seems as though the conclusions are never as interesting as the questions. I mean, they're not what you remember.
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. 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 would have visions in those days,a number of us did. Your young men will have visions and your old men will dream dreams We would have visions in those days,a number of us did. Your young men will have visions and your old men will dream dreams
Marilynne Robinson quotes: I have had a certain amount of experience with skepticism and the conversation it generates, and there is an inevitable futility in it. I have had a certain amount of experience with skepticism and the conversation it generates, and there is an inevitable futility in it.

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