"What follows is more about books than it……" — Francis Spufford
"What follows is more about books than it is about me, but nonetheless it is my inward autobiography, for the words we take into ourselves help to shape us."
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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 Autobiography Quotes
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one of 225 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is…
— Kate Atkinson
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
— John Berger
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'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.
— Mary J. Blige
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Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data…
— Nicholas Delbanco
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Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of…
— Marilyn Ferguson
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Mom - the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself.
— Robert Breault
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I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so…
— Philip Roth
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Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.
— Nikola Tesla
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But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when…
— Nikola Tesla
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When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.
— Nikola Tesla
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A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.
— Nikola Tesla
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