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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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When you once attribute effects to the will of a personal God, you have let in a lot of little gods and…
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The proliferation of state concealed carry laws has evidently reduced the rate of violent street crime to a considerable extent. When the…
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They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.
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Not stories told by wolf or man to frighten children, of Wolfbane and of werewolves, of grasht and goblins and of silly…
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I was born to find goblins in their caves / And chase moonlight / To see shadows and seek hidden rivers /…
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A sad tale's best for winter. I have one of sprites and goblins.
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We see light, not dark. But it is in the dark that we feel goblins and ghosts.
— Rex Brandt
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I do not believe that there are any such things as gods and goddesses, for exactly the same reasons as I do…
— A.C. Grayling
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As a child I was really into fantasy books with elves and goblins and swords, and I went through a phase for…
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A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts.
— William Shakespeare
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