Marilynne Robinson Quotes

• Grace has a grand laughter in it.

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• There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient.

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• This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.

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• A little too much anger, too often or at the wrong time, can destroy more than you would ever imagine.

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• Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense.

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• It is possible to know the great truths without feeling the truth of them.

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• Behold how much wood is kindled by how small a fire, and the tongue is fire.

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• It is better to have nothing, for at last even our bones will fall. It is better to have nothing.

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• Sometimes the visionary aspect of any particular day comes to you in the memory of it, or it opens to you over time.

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• Prayer is a discipline in truthfulness, in honesty.

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• To condescend effectively it is clearly necessary to adhere to a narrow definition of relevant data.

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• You must forgive in order to understand.

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• Avoid transgression. How’s that for advice.

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• It is clearly true that the reflex of disparagement is no more compatible with rigorous inquiry than the impulse to glorify.

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• To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow.

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• Much more prayer is called for, clearly, but first I will take a nap.

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• Remembering and forgiving can be contrary things.

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• Children seem to think that every pleasant thing has to be a surprise.

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• To be useful was the best thing the old men ever hoped for themselves, and to be aimless was their worst fear.

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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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Marilynne Robinson (34)

Birth:	26th November, 1943
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Essayist, Novelist

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Marilynne Summers Robinson is an American novelist and essayist. She has received several awards including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005 and the 2012 National Humanities Medal.

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