Quotes by : Marilynne Robinson

There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must....

We are supposed to believe [capitalist ideology] was the champion of freedom and prosperity in the epic....

Scatter the names of all those who have ever lived over the surface of the knowable cosmos, and it would....

Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you....

I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy....

When you encounter another person, when you have dealings with anyone at all, it is as if a question....

A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and....

It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company.

You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time.

I love the writers of my thousand books. It pleases me to think how astonished old Homer, whoever he....