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 common ground of human experience as an adult.
If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop – a big enough one so that the staff wouldn’t hassle a browser – and steal the contents of… - Francis Spufford
If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop – a big enough one so that the staff wouldn’t hassle a browser – and steal the contents of…
- 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
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.
Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them lay the fundamental marvel t… - Francis Spufford
Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them lay the fundamental marvel t…
Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending tha… - Francis Spufford
Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending tha…
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
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.
You never came out the way you came in. - Francis Spufford
You never came out the way you came in.
We are supposed to be on the side of goodness in the sense that we need it, not that we are it. - Francis Spufford
We are supposed to be on the side of goodness in the sense that we need it, not that we are it.
Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue. - Francis Spufford
Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.
If you based your knowledge of the human species exclusively on adverts, you'd think that the normal condition of humanity was to be a good-looking s… - Francis Spufford
If you based your knowledge of the human species exclusively on adverts, you'd think that the normal condition of humanity was to be a good-looking s…
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