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This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.
— Michael Medved
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
You never came out the way you came in.
— Francis Spufford
Most info-Web-media-newspaper types have a hard time swallowing the idea that knowledge is reached (mostly) by removing junk from peoples heads
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air.
— Jonathan Raban
Anyone can be self-educated if they find the loose end of something to care about passionately.
— Francis Spufford
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
It's easy to be taken advantage of if you're not honest.
— Katherine Heigl
God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity.
— Francis Spufford
I don't gamble, if you will concede that poker is a game of skill.
— Robert A. Heinlein
What is the tactful, the effective way of announcing that your life's work has been wasted?
— Francis Spufford
We are supposed to be on the side of goodness in the sense that we need it, not that we are it.
— Francis Spufford
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
Who we are' and 'what is our own' that we have to understand; it is not something we have to tell others.
— Dada Bhagwan
Negative thinkers always have a negative vision.
— Zig Ziglar
The best that can be done is to love for the sake of it, and to keep sorrow company.
— Francis Spufford
It's always struck me as unfair that writing has so little sensation when it's going well.
— Francis Spufford
This ... this means everything. We are everlasting. Fucking forever. I love you so much. Seeing my words for you on your body makes me insane for you.
— Ilsa Madden-Mills
We are supposed to do our fallible, failing best to perceive the other bad people as kin.
— Francis Spufford
Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.
— Francis Spufford
Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming.
— Francis Spufford
I was never argued out of faith; it was much more passive than that - and I wasn't argued back in, either.
— Francis Spufford
