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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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O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need…
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For summer there, bear in mind, is a loitering gossip, that only begins to talk of leaving when September rises to go.
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Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.
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The foundation of all civilization is loitering.
— Jean Renoir
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Things in which we do not take joy are either a burden upon our minds to be got rid of at any…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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I buy water at the liquor store across the street from where I live. So I'm walking into the door, and standing,…
— Sarah Silverman
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To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that…
— Victor Hugo
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Oh what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering?
— John Keats
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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…
— Francis Spufford
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My instinct was always have your gun in your hand. Especially when you are telling somebody to do something. But, in fact,…
— Augusten Burroughs
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X. I saw pale kings and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried—“La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee…
— John Keats
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Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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