Marilynne Robinson Quotes
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 with a jolt that made my hair prickle.
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Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a region free of Iranian nukes are worthy goals that should be able to withstand public scrutiny in every Middle Eastern capital.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
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I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.
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I didn't know a thing about Oxford and had never been to Britain. My father suggested it because in 1939 he had been about to take up a place at Wadham College, but the war broke out, and he joined the Army instead.
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I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.
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I am always late because people stop me for autographs and say hi.
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I am a Facebook voyeur. I feel bad about it because I never put anything on there, but I find it fun to sit there and watch peoples' lives go by. Or whatever lives they're presenting.
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I'm not in demand. I'm all washed up.
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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
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Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the old one?'
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I just can't see myself as a trophy wife. I can't imagine not having my own life.
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Not all series books are sagas. Some are shaped more like beads on a string, separate episodes held together by a set of characters, who may or may not grow and change as the series continues.
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The sweet converse of an innocent mind.
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Jesus of Nazareth was the most famous human being who ever lived on this planet, and he had no infrastructure, and it's never been done. He had no government, no PR guy, no money, no structure. He had nothing, yet he became the most famous human being ever.
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I have a job that allows me not to look perfect all the time. I can just go looking the way I look, have my hair just any old type of way.
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There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in sympathy that we live through them as directly as through ourselves. ... we push back our hair because theirs is in their eyes.
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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 with a jolt that made my hair prickle.
