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41 quotes by Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Summers Robinson (born November 26, 1943) 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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I think probably one of the important things that happened to me was growing up in Idaho in the mountains, in the woods, and having a very strong... →

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I read things like theology, and I read about science, 'Scientific American' and publications like that, because they stimulate again and... →

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I'm a great admirer of secularism. At its best, I think it's one of the best things that we have. I don't believe in insinuating religion... →

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One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among certain populations.

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I remember when I was a child... walking into the woods by myself and feeling the solitude around me build like electricity and pass through my body... →

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It saddens me that Christians need to be reminded that awe is owed also to those who disagree with them, who believe otherwise than they do.

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The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of... →

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

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I really enjoyed my kids. They were good boys, you know, and interesting. And they didn't wear me out.

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One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.

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The Bible for me is holy writ. It's a very straightforward thing, although I am not a literalist.

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My first novel, 'Housekeeping,' was accepted by the first agent who read it, and bought by the first editor who read it. In general, my... →

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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... →

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