Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Summers Robinsonis an American novelist and essayist best known for her novels Housekeepingand Gilead...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth26 November 1943
CountryUnited States of America
dream fall eye
Everything that falls upon the eye is apparition, a sheet dropped over the world's true workings. The nerves and the brain are tricked, and one is left with dreams that these specters loose their hands from ours and walk away, the curve of the back and the swing of the coat so familiar as to imply that they should be permanent fixtures of the world, when in fact nothing is more perishable.
impulse disagree
I do have an impulse to sort of leverage what I say against something I disagree with.
stars thinking years
I think I am like most people in letting myself worry about things that didn't matter. Concepts like quotidian and humdrum prevented me for years from really absorbing the miraculous strangeness of bombing around a star on a tottering planet, of watching the world unfold in time.
diversity arrogance culture
It is diversity that makes any natural system robust, and diversity that stabilizes culture against the eccentricity and arrogance that have so often called themselves reason and science.
community judgment accepting
When we accept dismissive judgments of our community we stop having generous hope for it. We cease to be capable of serving its best interests.
praying intimacy praying-for-you
That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.
might lasts last-time
You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time.
reading thinking years
I had been reading about [John] Calvin for years and had been studying the English Renaissance for many more years, and it had never occurred to me to think of them together. I learned that Calvin was the most widely read writer in England in Shakespeare's lifetime. He was translated and published in many editions.
beautiful morning moon
The moon looks wonderful in this warm evening light, just as a candle flame looks beautiful in the light of morning. Light within light...It seems to me to be a metaphor for the human soul, the singular light within that great general light of existence.
doe fiction acknowledge
Fiction that does not acknowledge this at least tacitly is not true.
prayer writing praying
For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers.
mind whole-life whole
You have to live with your mind your whole life.
would-be identical
...not deciding to act would be identical with deciding not to act.
revenge people example
John Calvin's theology emphasizes the sanctity of conscience, the sanctity of companionate marriage, and the obligation of those in power to attend to the well-being of the people in general, especially the poor. Interestingly, for the interpretation of Hamlet, for example, he forbids even the thought of revenge. This is not the Calvin of myth, but when the Elizabethans read him there was no such myth, nor would there be now, if he were read.