Marilynne Robinson
Born: 01-01-1943
Marilynne Robinson is a celebrated American novelist and essayist, best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Gilead." Born in 1943, she has a distinguished career in academia, teaching at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her works often explore themes of religion, family, and rural American life. Robinson's profound and lyrical prose has earned her numerous accolades, including the National Humanities Medal, solidifying her status as a leading voice in contemporary literature.
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Quotes
It seems to me increasingly that love must be a manifest to the world in the life of the community.
Lord, I never wanted to live anywhere but here.
It is the oddest thing about the world: how it manages to go on, in spite of the way it keeps diminishing.
I'm writing this in part to tell you that if you ever wonder what you've done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been God's grace to me, a miracle, something more than a miracle.
You know, in difficult times like this you realize what a good book is worth.
There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance it is only a glimpse or parable of an embracing, incomprehensible reality.
There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
But the love that comes with reservation is not love.
You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it.
Fear is a dangerous temptation.
Grace is wild. Grace always wakes you up. And grace always makes strange gifts suddenly possible.
It is one of the best traits of the human mind that when it is faced with a tyranny it responds with a blindness.