"Somebody who had read Lila asked me, â€˜Why do you write about the problem of loneliness?â€™ I said: â€˜Itâ€™s not a problem. Itâ€™s a condition. Itâ€™s a passion of a kind. Itâ€™s not a problem. I think that people make it a problem by interpreting it that way.â€™â€‰"

-- Marilynne Robinson

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“Environmental history fit[s] into the framework of New Left history. [It is] history "from the bottom up," except that here the exploited element [is] the biota and the land itself.”
“I brought killer intensity to my workoutsâ€¦ Itâ€™s not enough to just show up and do the workout. You have to bring something to itâ€¦ What was your intention? If you are not believing with all fervour and relentlessness in what it is you want to do, no one is going to do that for you.”
“Jail doesn't teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!”
“You know the reason I love the stars is because we can't hurt them: we can't burn them, we can't melt them , we can't make them overflow, we can't flood them or burn them upâ€”so we keep reacing for them”
“An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb”
“Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.”
“Needs are the expression of life through us.”
“To change societies you need to organize with others who share your views.”

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