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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 way across the…

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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.
God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity.
Taking the things people do wrong seriously is part of taking them seriously. It’s part of letting their actions have weight. It’s…
Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.
Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as…
If you based your knowledge of the human species exclusively on adverts, you'd think that the normal condition of humanity was to…
The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their…
If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop – a big enough one so that the staff wouldn’t…
I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading…
When I'm tired and therefore indecisive, it can take half an hour to choose the book I am going to have with…
Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them lay…
You never came out the way you came in.

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The sand stones had fragments of charcoal on some surfaces but found no recognisable fossils. — George Mercer Dawson
I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself… — Kevin Costner
The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their… — Francis Spufford
She knew with suddeness and ease that this moment would be with her always, within hand's reach of memory. She doubted if… — Stephen King
Studios, to cut through the clutter, want recognisable titles. But that does not excuse you, as a writer, from having an original… — Roberto Orci
People are not recognisable, but places have to be recognisable. — Ann Robinson
Once in a while it can be a bit disconcerting to be so recognisable. — George Wendt

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