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.
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Marilynne Robinson
These are some quotes by American author Marilynne Robinson Novelist, who was born on November 26, 1943.
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