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Marilynne Robinson
“I have always liked the phrase 'nursing a grudge' because many people are tender of their resentments as of the thing nearest their hearts.”
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

Marilynne Robinson
“And often enough, when we think we are protecting ourselves, we are struggling against our rescuer.”
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

Marilynne Robinson
“It is an amazing thing to watch people laugh, the way it sort of takes them over. Sometimes they really do struggle with it . . . so I wonder what it is and where it comes from, and I wonder what it expends out of your system, so that you have to do it till you're done, like crying in a way, I suppose, except that laughter is much more easily spent.”
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

Marilynne Robinson
“I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate to think they will be extinguished when I am. Well, but again, this life has its own mortal loveliness. And memory is not strictly mortal in its nature, either. It is a strange thing, after all, to be able to return to a moment, when it can hardly be said to have any reality at all, even in its passing. A moment is such a slight thing. I mean, that its abiding is a most gracious reprieve.”
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

Marilynne Robinson
“There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient”
Marilynne Robinson

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