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# Francis Spufford

(1964)   Journalist

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Francis Spufford is a journalist, best known for *Golden Hill*.

## Quick Facts About Francis Spufford

Born January 1, 1964

Profession Journalist

Notable works Golden Hill

## About Francis Spufford

Francis Spufford is an English author and writing teacher. His first novel Golden Hill received critical acclaim and numerous prizes including the Costa Book Award for First Novel, the Desmond Elliott Prize, and the Ondaatje Prize. In 2007 Spufford was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

## Awards & Honors

Somerset Maugham Award Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

##  Quotes by Francis Spufford

> [“A task begun is easier than a task contemplated;”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/a-task-begun-is-easier-than-a-task-contemplated/)

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[Easier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/easier/)

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> [God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/god-doesn-t-want-your-careful-virtue-he-wants-your-reckless-generosity/)

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> [You never came out the way you came in.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/you-never-came-out-the-way-you-came-in/)

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[Came](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/came/)

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> [We are supposed to be on the side of goodness in the sense that we need it, not that we are it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/we-are-supposed-to-be-on-the-side-of-goodness-in-the-sense-that-we/)

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[Goodness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/goodness/)

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> [Anyone can be self-educated if they find the loose end of something to care about passionately.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/anyone-can-be-self-educated-if-they-find-the-loose-end-of-something/)

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[About](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/about/)

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> [I was never argued out of faith; it was much more passive than that - and I wasn't argued back in, either.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/i-was-never-argued-out-of-faith-it-was-much-more-passive-than-that/)

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[Argued](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/argued/)

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> [“You do not chuse where You bestow your Heart. Your Heart bestows Itself, will-you-nill-you, in the Midst of other Business. —”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/you-do-not-chuse-where-you-bestow-your-heart-your-heart-bestows/)

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[Heart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/heart/)

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> [Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/self-awareness-is-not-the-same-thing-as-self-approval-any-more-than/)

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[Any](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/any/)

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> [“What is the tactful, the effective way of announcing that your life’s work has been wasted?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/what-is-the-tactful-the-effective-way-of-announcing-that-your-life-s/)

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[Life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/)

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> [It's always struck me as unfair that writing has so little sensation when it's going well.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/it-s-always-struck-me-as-unfair-that-writing-has-so-little-sensation/)

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[Always](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/always/)

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> [“We are supposed to do our fallible, failing best to perceive the other bad people as kin.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/we-are-supposed-to-do-our-fallible-failing-best-to-perceive-the-other/)

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[Bad people](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bad-people/)

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> [It's true that when Christianity is socially powerful, faith can look from the outside as if it is mainly a matter of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/it-s-true-that-when-christianity-is-socially-powerful-faith-can-look/)

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[Christianity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/christianity/)

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> [Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them lay…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/goblins-burrowed-in-the-earth-elves-sang-songs-in-the-trees-those/)

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[Behinds](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/behinds/)

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> [Why do I write? From selfishness. Because this state of liquefied, complex concentration, however faintly and dimly I'm able to perceive it,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/why-do-i-write-from-selfishness-because-this-state-of-liquefied/)

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> [If you based your knowledge of the human species exclusively on adverts, you'd think that the normal condition of humanity was to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/if-you-based-your-knowledge-of-the-human-species-exclusively-on/)

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[Definitions](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/definitions/)

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> [“Without faith, there'd be nothing but indifferent material forces at work. It's only when the idea of events having an author is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/without-faith-there-d-be-nothing-but-indifferent-material-forces-at/)

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[Cruel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cruel/)

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> [Christianity is a religion of continuity and discontinuity as well. It's about what stays the same and what changes in the twinkling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/christianity-is-a-religion-of-continuity-and-discontinuity-as-well-it/)

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> [“Why isn’t he dead?’ he said eventually. ‘That is a good question. After all, meaning well hasn’t been a completely adequate shield…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/why-isn-t-he-dead-he-said-eventually-that-is-a-good-question-after/)

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> [For a believer, Christian faith is true to the human heart, not in the sense that any old thing we fancy believing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/for-a-believer-christian-faith-is-true-to-the-human-heart-not-in-the/)

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> [If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop – a big enough one so that the staff wouldn’t…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/if-your-memory-was-ok-you-could-descend-upon-on-a-bookshop-a-big/)

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> [What I absolutely want is to suggest that before it's anything else, redemption is God mending the bicycle of our souls; God…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/what-i-absolutely-want-is-to-suggest-that-before-it-s-anything-else/)

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> [“Seen from that future time, when every commodity the human mind could imagine would flow from the industrial horn of plenty in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/seen-from-that-future-time-when-every-commodity-the-human-mind-could/)

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[Abundance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/abundance/)

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> [“Peace is not the norm; peace is rare, and where we do manage to institutionalize it in a human society, it's usually…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/peace-is-not-the-norm-peace-is-rare-and-where-we-do-manage-to/)

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[Corrupt power](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/corrupt-power/)

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> [Taking the things people do wrong seriously is part of taking them seriously. It’s part of letting their actions have weight. It’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/taking-the-things-people-do-wrong-seriously-is-part-of-taking-them/)

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[Action](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/action/)

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> [If you're a believer, God is not a thought-experiment requiring a special sub-creation to be tried out in. He's an actual, er,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/if-you-re-a-believer-god-is-not-a-thought-experiment-requiring-a/)

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> [“I don't know if there's a God. (And neither do you, and neither does Professor Dawkins, and neither does anybody. It isn't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/i-don-t-know-if-there-s-a-god-and-neither-do-you-and-neither-does/)

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[Atheism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/atheism/)

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> [I think I have made allowances for the kind of despair which would test my faith, but you cannot know in advance…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/i-think-i-have-made-allowances-for-the-kind-of-despair-which-would/)

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> [“Beyond the breakwater you can no longer touch bottom, but you are not afraid, for in this sea the harder you swim…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/beyond-the-breakwater-you-can-no-longer-touch-bottom-but-you-are-not/)

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[Desire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/desire/)

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> [“I need fiction, I am an addict. This is not a figure of speech. I don’t quite read a novel a day,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/i-need-fiction-i-am-an-addict-this-is-not-a-figure-of-speech-i-don-t/)

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[Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/)

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> [“She ran her hands into Smith's wet hair, and he-- But why always Smith? Was it necessarily true, that because she seemed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/she-ran-her-hands-into-smith-s-wet-hair-and-he-but-why-always-smith/)

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> [“...for a piece of famous fluffiness that doesn't just pretend about what real lives can be like, but moves on into one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/for-a-piece-of-famous-fluffiness-that-doesn-t-just-pretend-about-what/)

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> [“It would be a kindness, by the way, and a service to history, if you could please rid yourself of the legend…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/it-would-be-a-kindness-by-the-way-and-a-service-to-history-if-you/)

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[Christianity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/christianity/)

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> [“...what goes on inside believers is mysterious. So far as it can be guessed at - if for some reason you wanted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/what-goes-on-inside-believers-is-mysterious-so-far-as-it-can-be/)

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> [“Whatever the "Christian conservatives" in America say, there is no one set of rightful opinions that follow on automatically from your belief.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/whatever-the-christian-conservatives-in-america-say-there-is-no-one/)

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[Change](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/change/)

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> [What follows is more about books than it is about me, but nonetheless it is my inward autobiography, for the words we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/what-follows-is-more-about-books-than-it-is-about-me-but-nonetheless/)

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> [Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/emotions-can-certainly-be-misleading-they-can-fool-you-into-believing/)

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> [I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/i-can-always-tell-when-you-re-reading-somewhere-in-the-house-my/)

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[House](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/house/)

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> [What we need in Europe is to push back against the idea that religion is so farfetched that it's not worth talking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/what-we-need-in-europe-is-to-push-back-against-the-idea-that-religion/)

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> [When I'm tired and therefore indecisive, it can take half an hour to choose the book I am going to have with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/when-i-m-tired-and-therefore-indecisive-it-can-take-half-an-hour-to/)

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[Book](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/book/)

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> [“...the best that can be done is to love for the sake of it, and to keep sorrow company.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/the-best-that-can-be-done-is-to-love-for-the-sake-of-it-and-to-keep/)

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## Francis Spufford by topic

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