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I love Gilead because I love Robinson's third book in the trilogy, Lila. The first time I read Gilead I thought it was good. Fine. You know, worth reading. Maybe a little slow, but pretty. I know by looking at this book on my Goodreads' shelf, I mark ...more "
“Our civilization has decided, and very justly decided, that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. It wishes for light upon that awful matter, it asks men who know no more law than I know, but who can feel the thing that I felt in that jury box. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.”
― Tremendous Trifles
― Tremendous Trifles
“It's easy to become anything you wish . . . so long as you're willing to forfeit your soul.”
― American Born Chinese
― American Born Chinese
“They learned to have a very high opinion of God and a very low opinion of His works—although they could tell you that this world had been made by God Himself. What they didn’t see was that it is beautiful, and that some of the greatest beauties are the briefest.”
― Jayber Crow
― Jayber Crow
“The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it.”
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“It is at least as possible for a Philadelphian to feel the presence of Penn and Franklin as for an Englishman to see the ghosts of Alfred and Becket. Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means that it still matters what Penn did two hundred years ago or what Franklin did a hundred years ago; I never could feel in New York that it mattered what anybody did an hour ago.”
― What I Saw in America
― What I Saw in America
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