"I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another. I want to believe there are geniuses scheming to astonish the rest of us, just for the pleasure of it."

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Source : Marilynne Robinson (2014). “The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought”, p.4, Picador

Marilynne Robinson

#Art Quotes #Believe Quotes #Genius Quotes

“But more important than personal awards is winning the World Series. That's the max that anyone could ask for. Let alone to have the ball in your in your glove for the final out of the World Series. That was the ultimate.”
“No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.”
“I'm worried about the traditional media, but I think the new media is a plus for democracy.”
“I actually went to drama school at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama in Glasgow, so I stayed in my home town the whole time. However, I see more of my friends now than I did then. It's strange.”
“Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,--a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to hide her sole treasure, her tears!”
“[Women] are early taught that to appear to yield is the only way to govern.”

Source : Sarah Moore Grimké, Mary S. Parker (1838). “Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker”, p.86
“Cersei in Game of Thrones is quite solid and stiff.”
“Get the inside right, and the outside will take care of itself.”

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