"I want to know why I read as……" — Francis Spufford
"I want to know why I read as a child with such a frantic appetite, why I sucked the words off the page with such an edge of desperation."
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20 Quotes by Francis Spufford
Francis Spufford has 20 quotes on this site.
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We are supposed to be on the side of goodness in the sense that we need it, not that we…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever…
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If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop – a big enough one so that the…
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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,…
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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…
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Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind…
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You never came out the way you came in.
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More Appetite Quotes
This quote is filed under Appetite Quotes,
one of 584 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to…
— Joseph Addison
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In every language you can imagine, I've had people say 'Appetite For Destruction' is the soundtrack to their lives. I…
— Steven Adler
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Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any…
— Eli Broad
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To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her…
— James Buchan
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
— Lord Byron
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My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working…
— Kim Cattrall
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I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.
— Emile M. Cioran
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It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom & passion.
— Steve Winwood
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The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.
— Marty Neumeier
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I thought that conclusion that we leaped to right after the election, that has been disproven statistically so many times,…
— Steve King
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