"People,” Robinson said, pausing before she defined that familiar word in original terms: “Brilliant creatures, who at a very high rate, predictably, are incomprehensible to each other. If what people want is to be formally in society, to have status, to have loving relationships, houseplants that don’t die, the failure rate is phenomenal."
— From last weekend’s New York Times Magazine profile of Marilynne Robinson, on the occasion of the coming release of her long-awaited new novel Lila. Robinson will be appearing here on Thursday, October 16th.
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