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She couldn’t lean her whole weight on any of this when she knew she would have to live on after it.
Marilynne Robinson • Lila (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel
infinitesimally
Sally Rooney • Normal People
There was a certain positive originality, however slight, to be detected in him, and I occasionally observed that he was thinking for himself and expressing his own opinion, a phenomenon so rare that I would any day walk ten miles to observe it, and it amounted to the re-origination of many of the institutions of society.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
“For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs." (George Eliot, Middlemarch)
This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.
Marilynne Robinson • Gilead (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel
It could be true that my interest in abstractions, which would have been forgiven first on grounds of youth and then on grounds of eccentricity, is now being forgiven on grounds of senility, which would mean people have stopped trying to see the sense in the things I say the way they once did. That would be by far the worst form of forgiveness.
Marilynne Robinson • Gilead
“I had much rather starve in England, a free woman than be a slave for the best man that ever breathed upon the American continent.”
James H. Cone • God of the Oppressed
“I have not forgotten your questions about the woman you keep in the madhouse, Ramezay. I have said nothing on that subject during our last few dinners, but it has not been absent from my mind, you may be assured. Invariably I come back to the same answer: why do you worry? What good would it do you if I told you she is indeed a saint? I cannot mak
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