Francis Spufford Quotes
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.
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No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.
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For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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I'm a Christian guy, and when it comes to my priorities, it's the utmost. For me, just to calm myself down, to keep my perspective when I'm playing, to not make too big a deal of it... that's where I go to. The peace that comes with that allows me to play free golf.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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My breakdancing crew used to go to the mall and squat a piece of cardboard there; we had our jam box, and I'd spin on my head and make about forty bucks a day, which was pretty good back then. I was only 14 years old, so I would chase the girls around the mall and eat some pizza and have some change left over.
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I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.
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Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.
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Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.
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French existentialism is an unhelpful philosophy in which to couch modern feminism: born from the ravages of the Second World War, it is a cynical, individualistic school of thought that posits the self and personal choice as the measure of life's entire meaning.
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I would like to think I'm a good secret-keeper, when it comes to friends. I'm quite loyal like that.
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It is easy to get to a higher number when you are not asking anything difficult from yourself.
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'Good evening. President Reagan, still training his spotlight on the economy, today signed a package of budget cuts that he will send to Congress tomorrow. Lesley Stahl has the story. '
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Necessity is the theme and the inventress, the eternal curb and law of nature.
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I'm not saying that being gay is what defines me, but at the same time, if you feel like you have to hide it, then it becomes what defines you. You keep it hidden, and the secret becomes you.
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I'm not the best singer, but I like the way I sing my songs.
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The complexities of life situations are really not as complicated as we tend to experience them.
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Have you ever heard of 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?' I would like to play Sidney Poitier's role - I love that role.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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There is a particular whir of agitation about female hunger, a low-level thrumming of shoulds and shouldn'ts and can'ts and wants that can be so chronic and familiar it becomes a kind of feminine Muzak, easy to dismiss, or to tune out altogether, even if you're actively participating in it.
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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.
