It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company.

Marilynne Robinson
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More Quotes By Marilynne Robinson
  1. To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared...

  2. A joke is a very serious thing.

  3. This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.

  4. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

  5. For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.

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