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Francis Spufford has 20 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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.
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God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity.
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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…
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Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.
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Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as…
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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…
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The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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You never came out the way you came in.
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To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children…
— Annie Besant
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as…
— Orlando Bloom
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Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
— Orlando Bloom
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Adolescents sense a secret, unique greatness in thems.elves that seeks expression. They gesture towards the heart when trying to express any of…
— Joseph Chilton Pearce
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Id have to say, for me, as a child, my favorite memories were always centered around Christmas time. It always seemed like…
— Josie Bissett
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A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
— Terry Brooks
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I don't want to live in a world where the strong rule and the weak cower. I'd rather make a place where…
— Jim Butcher
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Our democracy, our culture, our whole way of life is a spectacular triumph of the blah. Why not have a political convention…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Vampires are make-believe, like elves, gremlins, and eskimos.
— Matt Groening
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If Mitt Romney was Santa Claus, he would fire the reindeer and outsource the elves.
— Ted Strickland
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It was like when we were little kids and we played games on the ivy-covered hillside in the backyard. We were warriors…
— Francesca Lia Block
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It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be…
— C.S. Lewis
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