Marilynne Robinson said this quote

“ You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension. ”

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Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.

~ Marilynne Robinson

There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.

~ Marilynne Robinson

When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth.

~ Marilynne Robinson

I felt, as I have often felt, that my failing the truth could have no bearing at all on the Truth itself, which could never conceivably be in any sense dependent on me or on anyone.

~ Marilynne Robinson