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Marilynne Summers Robinson (born November 26, 1943) is an American novelist and essayist. During her writing career Robinson has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005, the 2012 National Humanities Medal, and the 2016 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.
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A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.
Gilead (2004)
Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it.
Gilead (2004)
I love loneliness. I consider my history with loneliness to be among my great blessings…I hasten to add that it is definitely not for everyone. It should be approached with caution.
It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire. Another reason why you must be careful of your health.
Gilead (2004)
I was trying to remember what birds did before there were telephone wires. It would have been much harder for them to roost in the sunlight, which is a thing they clearly enjoy doing.
Gilead (2004)
Experience had taught them that truth had sharp edges and hard corners, and could be seriously at odds with kindness.
Home (2008)
Her family was slower to forgive a failure of discretion than they were to forgive most things actually prohibited in Scripture.
Home (2008)
I can imagine Jesus befriending my grandfather, too, frying up some breakfast for him, talking things over with him, and in fact the old man did report several experiences of just that kind.
Gilead (2004)
He had a way of anticipating memories he particularly did not want to have. That memory would be as unbearable as things are when there is nothing else to do but live with them.
Jack (2020)
But prison was terrible. It reduced him to absolute Jack, no matter what anyone thought of him. His great problem, after all, was other people. Prison was full of them.
Jack (2020)
He could knock me down the stairs and I would have worked out the theology for forgiving him before I reached the bottom. But if he harmed you in the slightest way, I'm afraid theology would fail me.
Gilead (2004)
Cynicism induces a state of helplessness…It disables resistance to all these ills and reduces those who can see and name them into passive collaborators.” It is used as “a kind of cover for what might otherwise seem naive”.
He wanted to assure her that his life was solitary and ascetic, as it was, almost past bearing, relieved by the library, occasional drunkenness, and lately by lunch with the Baptists. But he knew how this would sound, either pathetic or, better, like lying.
Jack (2020)
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