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“He [Christ] even restored the severed ear of the soldier who came to arrest Him - a fact that allows us to hope the resurrection will reflect a considerable attention to detail.”

Quote by Marilynne Robinson

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Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson is an American novelist known for her profound religious and moral themes. Her works often explore personal faith, social justice, and human relationships, earning her widespread acclaim. Born on November 26, 1943, Robinson's novels 'Gilead' and 'Housekeeping' have received extensive praise. more

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“There was some sort of maze-learning experiment involved in my final grade and since I remember the rat who was my colleague as uncooperative, or perhaps merely incompetent at being a rat, or tired of the whole thing, I don't remember how I passed.”

Whole Remember Science Education Involved Tired Finals Experiments Grades Colleagues Rats Incompetent Mazes Uncooperative

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“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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“The great truth that is too often forgotten is that it is in the nature of people to do good to one another.”

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“A letter makes ordinary things seem important.”

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Book:Lila: A Novel

Source: Lila: A Novel

“And there is no living creature, though the whims of eons had put its eyes on boggling stalks and clamped it in a carapace, diminished it to a pinpoint and given it a taste for mud and stuck it down a well or hid it under a stone, but that creature will live on if it can.”

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Book:Housekeeping: A Novel

Source: Housekeeping: A Novel

“Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.”

Humans Black White Human Nature Black And White Grey

Book:Conversations with Graham Greene

Source: Conversations with Graham Greene

“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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Author:Marilynne Robinson

“pity and charity may be at root an attempt to propitiate the dark powers that have not touched us yet.”

May Dark Roots Charity Pity Touched

Book:Housekeeping: A Novel

Source: Housekeeping: A Novel

“The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted. That is why the first event is known to have been an expulsion, and the last is hoped to be a reconciliation and return. So memory pulls us forward, so prophecy is only brilliant memory - there will be a garden where all of us as one child will sleep in our mother Eve, hooped in her ribs and staved by her spine.”

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“I wrote almost all of it in the deepest hope and conviction. Sifting my thoughts and choosing my words. Trying to say what was true. And I'll tell you frankly, that was wonderful.”

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Book:Gilead: A Novel

Source: Gilead: A Novel