My grandfather once told her if you couldn’t read with cold feet, there wouldn’t be a literate soul in the state of Maine.
– Marilynne Robinson
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- When I was a child, I read books. My reading was not indiscriminate. I preferred books that were old and thick and hard. I made vocabulary lists. – Marilynne Robinson
- Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery. – Marilynne Robinson
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- Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style. – RL Stine
- …if your great-great-great-grandfather wanted to read his book after dark, some poor soul had to crawl around in a whale’s head for an afternoon. – Steven Johnson
- State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: ‘I, the state, am the people. – Friedrich Nietzsche
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- But there is something about human beings that too often makes our love for the world look very much like hatred for it. – Marilynne Robinson
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- It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire. – Marilynne Robinson
- That is to say, I pray for you. And there’s an intimacy in it. That’s the truth. – Marilynne Robinson
- I’ll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful.I’ll pray, and then I’ll sleep. – Marilynne Robinson
- There are a thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them sufficient. – Marilynne Robinson
- remembering and forgiving can be contrary things – Marilynne Robinson
- She was a music I no longer heard, that rang in my mind, itself and nothing else, lost to all sense, but not perished, not perished. – Marilynne Robinson
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- I believe there are visions that come to us only in memory, in retrospect. – Marilynne Robinson
- it’s hard to find time to think about Kansas. – Marilynne Robinson
- He looked up at her. Kindness was something he didn’t even know he wanted, and here it was. – Marilynne Robinson
- There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm. – Marilynne Robinson
- Avoid transgression. How’s that for advice. – Marilynne Robinson
- It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company. – Marilynne Robinson
- Love is holy because it is like grace–the worthiness of its object is never really what matters. – Marilynne Robinson
- . . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father’s love and our deserving. – Marilynne Robinson
- The best things that happen I’d never have thought to pray for. In a million years. The worst things just come like the weather. – Marilynne Robinson
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- …morality is a check upon the strongest temptations. – Marilynne Robinson
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- I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally. – Marilynne Robinson
- The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art. – Marilynne Robinson
- I’ve often been sorry to see a night end, even while I have loved seeing the dawn come. – Marilynne Robinson
- The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate. – Isaac Asimov
- The Postmodernists’ tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose. – Christopher Hitchens
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- And now he was dead, his soul fled down to the Sunless Country and his body lying cold in the cold mud, somewhere in the city’s wake. – Philip Reeve
- And read-¦ read all the time-¦ read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life. – David McCullough Jr