"This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it."

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Source : Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.28, Macmillan

Marilynne Robinson

#Giving Quotes #Interesting Quotes #Attention Quotes

“I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals.”
“I am not responsible for the actions of Saakashvili and even for those of Gamsakhurdia.”
“There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.”
“The liberal media were never that powerful, and the whole thing was often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures.”

Source : "'What Liberal Media?'". www.nytimes.com. March 16, 2003.
“If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.”

Source : "No Longer a Soldier, Shinseki Has a New Mission". Article by James Dao, Thom Shanker, www.nytimes.com. November 10, 2009.
“You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion.”
“Everything is possible for the writer. There isn't anything anyone can tell you that you can't do, and there is no such thing as "getting away with" anything. There's no one to tell you what you can or can't do. You're only limited by the fences you allow yourself to build around yourself, for whatever reason, including fidelity to some idea about literature someone else imposed upon you some time long ago or five minutes ago.”

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