- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Excluding
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a great admirer of secularism. At its best, I think it's one of the best things that we have. I don't believe in insinuating religion into conversation. I don't believe in excluding it from conversation. I enjoy the fact that people's innermost thoughts are their own.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really enjoyed my kids. They were good boys, you know, and interesting. And they didn't wear me out.
- Discredit
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of Christian extremism has done a great deal to discredit religion; the main religious traditions have abandoned their own intellectual cultures so drastically that no one has any sense of it other than the fringe.
- Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to read in my own house, in any of the rooms I always mean to paint or otherwise improve and never do. Every detail is so familiar to me that it makes almost no claim on my attention.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to think of the reading of any book as preparation for the next reading of it. There are always intervening books or facts or realizations that put a book in another light and make it different and richer the second or the third time.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous old books on philosophy or theology that I want to see with my own eyes, by essays on contemporary science, by the literatures of antiquity.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mind, whatever else it is, is a constant of everyone's experience, and, in more ways than we know, the creator of the reality that we live within... Nothing is more essential to us.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in the manner of the other creatures, but are instead participants in a reality that utterly exceeds our powers of description.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It saddens me that Christians need to be reminded that awe is owed also to those who disagree with them, who believe otherwise than they do.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the whole of graduate school.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel for a pretty long time.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My heroes are, above all, the great 19th-century Americans: Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson and the others. I love the way they think.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
I doubt that I could create a character I loathed simply because when a character takes life, it is impossible not to be a little amazed by the phenomenon, and to find that the amazement has something of the quality of delight.
- Paradise
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- Nov 07, 2020