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Francis Spufford quotes: What we need in Europe is to push back against the idea that religion is so farfetched that it's not worth talking about.

What we need in Europe is to push back against the idea that religion is so farfetched that it's not worth talking about.

Francis Spufford quotes: You never came out the way you came in.

You never came out the way you came in.

Francis Spufford quotes: I was never argued out of faith; it was much more passive than that - and I wasn't argued back in, either.

I was never argued out of faith; it was much more passive than that - and I wasn't argued back in, either.

Francis Spufford quotes: Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming.

Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming.

Francis Spufford quotes: Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.

Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.

Francis Spufford quotes: We are supposed to do our fallible, failing best to perceive the other bad people as kin.

We are supposed to do our fallible, failing best to perceive the other bad people as kin.

Francis Spufford quotes: It's always struck me as unfair that writing has so little sensation when it's going well.

It's always struck me as unfair that writing has so little sensation when it's going well.

Francis Spufford quotes: The best that can be done is to love for the sake of it, and to keep sorrow company.

The best that can be done is to love for the sake of it, and to keep sorrow company.

Francis Spufford quotes: 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.

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.

Francis Spufford quotes: When I'm tired and therefore indecisive, it can take half an hour to choose the book I am going to have with me while I brush my teeth.

When I'm tired and therefore indecisive, it can take half an hour to choose the book I am going to have with me while I brush my teeth.

Francis Spufford quotes: We are supposed to be on the side of goodness in the sense that we need it, not that we are it.

We are supposed to be on the side of goodness in the sense that we need it, not that we are it.

Francis Spufford quotes: What is the tactful, the effective way of announcing that your life's work has been wasted?

What is the tactful, the effective way of announcing that your life's work has been wasted?

Francis Spufford quotes: God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity.

God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity.

Francis Spufford quotes: I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading silence.

I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading silence.

Francis Spufford quotes: Anyone can be self-educated if they find the loose end of something to care about passionately.

Anyone can be self-educated if they find the loose end of something to care about passionately.